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Lithuania Blows Its Chance to Blow Up Gazprom

Reuters is reporting that Lithuania has blown its chance to escape from Gazprom’s not so-friendly embrace: U.S. energy major Chevron has pulled out after winning a tender to explore for shale gas in...

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Latvia Tells the Eurozone’s Story in Slow-Motion

Latvia has been a poster-child for Germany’s demand for Southern (read: Greek or Former Vital German Market of the Week) austerity since the country leveraged painful government cuts and related...

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Georgia’s Step Back

Georgia has for many years been viewed as the likeliest of the former Soviet Republics to join the European Union, with low(er) corruption rankings, a better than normal investment climate, an orderly...

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Russia’s Long Game Faces Gazprom’s Waning Power

Students of history usually learn the wrong lessons. European leaders, who usually style themselves masters of the past and builders of the future, were caught flat-footed when Vladimir Putin almost...

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Russia’s Imperialism Costs It Economic Growth

The economic commentary on Russia portrays Russia as an economic juggernaut whose petrochemical wealth an trade position inside of its former Soviet empire. This economic colossus is able to alter the...

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The Puzzle of the Baltics

It is a somewhat unorthodox theory, but many Russians of a certain bent blame the Baltics for the fall of the Soviet Union. They may have a point; reluctant at best captives of a hungry empire who...

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Lithuania’s Drive for the Euro: Here We Go Again

Dealing with European microfinance is invariably influenced by its macrofinance, which might generously be called “convoluted.” Yet the convoluted European finance game is nothing compared to trying to...

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Why Join the EU?

The chart below provides a rough guideline of Eurozone economic performance (less, as noted, Ireland, Austria, and Finland) from before the onset of the global financial crisis through Q1 of 2013. (Q2...

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Whither the West: A New Beginning

The Center is now in its fourth year, a truly remarkable achievement many of us never imagined would come to pass. We’ve had growing pains, and we’ve published some great authors, some of whom have...

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Whither the West: Is Russia the Force That Broke the West?

As part of our spring symposia series, we’ve asked our scholars to weigh in on the challenges the West faces today in the former Soviet Union. This week, Rich Seibert and Matt Lina will discuss a...

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