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• The Institutionalization of Parliaments in Transitioning Nations (Irina KHMELKO)

  This article discusses theories and practice of parliamentary institutionalization. Further, it introduces issues that have importance for the practice of legislative institutionalization in post-communist parliaments and require more scholarly attention....

• European Union Conflict Management policy - Case of Georgia (Kornely K. KAKACHIA)

  In less than two decades, international conflict management has become a permanent feature of International Relations and consequently of the European Security policy. The main aim of the EU, as stated in its draft treaty, is peace. Thus conflict resoluti...

• The EU enlargement and the Romanian-Moldovan Border (Radu SIMIONESCU)

  This essay examines the impacts of European Union enlargement and its assets through a multi-layered study of the Romania case from the beginning in the early 1990s till the present. By examining this historically important case, I analyze also the proble...

• Putting an end to the "dialogue of the deaf" between Romania and Russia? Struggling with the past, reshaping the future (Şerban F. CIOCULESCU)

  The anti-communist revolution of 1989 in Romania represented a turning point for the Russian-Romanian relations because in the following years Russia withdrew more to the East, after its imperial disintegration, while Romania gradually moved close...

• Humanitarian Intervention, Sovereignity and the UN Charter in the International Liberal Order 3.0 (Alexandru LUCINESCU)

  After the end of the Cold War, humanitarian intervention became an important topic and called into question the traditional (Westphalian) sovereignty. According to John Ikenberry this fact favoures the emergence of a third (3.0) liberal international ...

• Committee System Development in Eastern European Legislatures: the case of Ukraine ( Irina KHMELKO, Victor PIGENKO)

  New democratic parliaments in the former Soviet countries have been and remain important actors in the process of democratic transition and consolidation in the region. These parliaments had to develop new organizational structures to perform new func...

• Towards a welfare research framework in the countries of Eastern Partnership Initiative (Alexi GUGUSHVILI)

  The Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative is a European Union (EU) project aiming to advance socioeconomic development in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. To date, virtually no research has been done on comparative welfare sy...

• The Sino-Albanian Entente (Michelle DEFREESE)

  Throughout the history of Albania’s foreign relations, perhaps no other bilateral alliance is more curious in nature than the Sino-Albanian entente. It was spurred by two leaders who have profoundly impacted and shaped the history of their persp...

• Book Review

  Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, New York: W.W. Norton, 2008Andrei Miroiu The editor of Newsweek and the former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, Yale and Harvard-educated Fareed Zakaria recently published his third book, on the coming of t...

• Russia vs the Western Powers: The Politics of Energy in Central Asia

   Tabish Shah Russia is by far the most influential player in the Central Asian region. The Russian state monopoly over Soviet era pipelines ensures that Central Asia’s main source of revenue, its energy resources, are dependent upon Russia for transpo...

• The Caucasus Conflict and its Implications for European Security

   Crisia MiroiuAbstractThe Caucasus conflict and its Implications for European Security is a conflict analysis’ paper, aiming to provide a complete understanding of the 2008 conflict by examining its roots within the Russian – Georgian relations since...

• Russian Geopolitical Concepts in Eurasia. A Short Overview

  Martin MalekAbstractSince 1999, soaring gas and oil prices have made resource-rich Russia both more powerful and intransigent, but also less co-operative. This, too, determines the emphasis Moscow puts on geopolitical initiatives. This paper sets out from...

• Domestic and International Factors in the Process of Civil Society Development: The Case of Ukraine

  Irina KhmelkoAbstractThis article focuses on factors that contribute to civil society development in the former Soviet countries. We analyze a set of challenges faced by civil societies in these countries and the tools available to these societies to over...

• Democracy, Human Rights and Ethnic Conflicts in Eastern Europe and Asia and in the Processes of European Integration and Globalization by Prof. Dr. Zlatko Isakovic

  Journal of East-European and Asian StudiesVol. 1, No. 1, April 2009Democracy, Human Rights and Ethnic Conflicts in Eastern Europe and Asia and in the Processes of European Integration and Globalization1Prof. Dr. Zlatko IsakovicThe aim of this paper is to ...

• Threads in the canvas. Pipeline politics and the economization of the Russian foreign policy in the Black Sea region by Paula Ganga*

  1Journal of East-European and Asian StudiesVol. 1, No. 1, April 2009Threads in the canvas. Pipeline politics and the economization of the Russian foreign policy in the Black Sea regionPaula Ganga*The Black Sea region has primarily been a space dominated b...

• Discouraging Responsibility in Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Continuing Role of the International Community by Darragh Farrell*

  Journal of East-European and Asian StudiesVol. 1, No. 1, April 2009Discouraging Responsibility in Bosnia & Herzegovina: The Continuing Role of the International CommunityDarragh Farrell*In recent times, the international organisations that have overseen t...

• Georgia 2003 and Ukraine 2004: Two Acts, One Play? by Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese

  Journal of East-European and Asian StudiesVol. 1, No. 1, April 2009Georgia 2003 and Ukraine 2004: Two Acts, One Play?Donnacha Ó Beacháin* and Abel Polese**“Man gets rid of fear and feels free. Without that there would be no revolution”(Ryszard Kapu�...

• Article 4

  LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET, CONSEC TETUER ADIP ISCING ELIT. PRAESENT VESTIBULUM MOLESTIE LACUS. AENEAN NONUMMY HENDRERIT MAURIS. PHASEL LUS PORTA. FUSCE SUSCIPIT VARIUS MI. CUM SOCIIS NATOQUE PENATIBUS ET MAGNIS...