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Russia and Eastern Europe:
Partners for Progress or Autocratic Recidivists?
Partners for Progress or Autocratic Recidivists?
Sidney E. Dean, Editor
HRISQ - Hampton Roads International Security Quarterly, Vol. XI Nr. 4 (October 2011)
Twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet empire. Most former members of the Warsaw Pact have become solid democracies, but questions remain regarding some nations.
Many of these questions center around civil rights, the status of minorities, and the extent to which basic democratic principles define the electoral and governing process.
Russia – which remains the second-strongest military power after the United States – constitutes a special case. Moscow’s foreign policy alternates between overtures to the West and open brinkmanship.
This issue of Hampton Roads International Security Quarterly concentrates on the political situation in Eastern Europe and Russia, with a special focus on US policy toward this region.