Outsourced diplomacy - Complicating Russia-West relations
The hiring of public relations agencies to project state policy abroad is complicating the intelligent solution of international conflicts in the South Caucasus and elsewhere.
30 September 2009 - Full text...

The West and Russia - The EU as a front for NATO
In an article on the need to restore Russia-West relations, US analysts propose using a promise of EU membership to solve problem of Ukraine and Georgia
24 April 2009 - Full text...

Georgia simmers - The price of Saakashvili's blunders
The West sits easily by as it watches the Georgian President’s opponents, at last united, calling for his resignation
11 April 2009 - Full text...

Georgia indicted - In S.Ossetia, it 'targeted civilians'
Formerly sceptical Western agencies now say that Georgia’s December 7th attack on the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, was indiscriminate, and that President Saakashvili’s defence of it was misleading.
21 November 2008 - Full text...

Between Russia and Georgia - The European Union on a tightrope
The EU’s credibility is at stake with its monitoring operation in Georgia, but Russia is equally interested in the operation succeeding.
12 October 2008 - Full text...

Russian troops in South Ossetia - Protests mount over obsolescent weapons
A military post-mortem shows that Russian forces taking part in the South Ossetian operation last month were scandalously short of modern equipment.
4 October 2008 - Full text...

Battered Georgia - Time running out for Saakashvili
The main collateral damage from Georgia’s failed military operation, apart from the loss of Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the foreseeable future, is to the prospects for the President’s
20 September 2008 - Full text...

First Georgia, now Ukraine - Paranoia, and poison, again
President Medvedev undiplomatically called President Saakashvili a political corpse. Now President Yushchenko is doing his best to win the title too.
7 September 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Europe - Slipping hands on a dangerous rope
Endless confusion is promised over the implementation of the Georgia cease-fire agreement, but one thing is sure: Russia-West relations are in a downspin, which even the ‘old’ Europe will now find hard to stop
3 September 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Georgia - Farewell to arms limitation?
Reports from South Ossetia show the Russian forces to have been better led, and the Georgians better equipped, than either side expected. But Russia is the winner, and the gloomy lesson for anti-militarists is that armed force pays.
18 August 2008 - Full text...