As the January elections in Georgia approach, takes a look at the successes and failures of the Rose Revolution.
What Freedom House’s findings say about the state of Georgian democracy.
Though he may be perceived as a reformer in the West, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is anything but a model democrat.
The recent effort by the Bush Administration to better explain U.S. policies in Eastern Europe will have no impact unless Washington is prepared to listen to Russian concerns and act accordingly.
Georgian President Saakashvili may not deserve the fulsome praise he receives from the West.
TNI editor Nikolas Gvosdev feels former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke's call for the Russia-Georgia relationship to be a key factor in the West's ties with Moscow fails the "reality test."
By now, the long hard slog that is Iraq should have convinced all but the most die-hard believers that there is no presto, quick change formula that transforms an entrenched autocracy into a liberal democracy overnight.
Developments in Georgia over the next week will have huge implications for the whole Caucasus region and U.
"First, modernization. Then, democratization."
The capture last month of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may have played into the hands of those members of the Russian leadership who seek, for whatever reasons, to prolong indefinitely the ongoing low-level hostilities in Chechnya.