… Kozhemiakin and Kanet suggest that Russia's behaviour towards the former Soviet
region is influenced primarily by domestic political processes and, in particular, by the rise of …

Precipitated by the abortive coup of August 1991 and made imminent by the creation of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the collapse of the Soviet Union finally became …

Theorists of international politics have recently observed an apparent anomaly: democracies
do not seem to fight each other.See, eg, Michael Doyle, ‘Liberalism and World Politics’, …

Kozhemiakin examines the impact of democratization on the foreign policy of transitional
regimes. On the basis of the case studies of four currently democratizing nations (Russia, …

One of the least expected results of the ending of the global confrontation between the Soviet
Union and the United States was the rapid disintegration of the Soviet state itself into more …

By the mid-1970s many Western observers had become increasingly concerned about the
unparalleled advances that the Soviet Union had made in the Third World. The emergence of …

The primary purpose of this brief study is to explore the major sources of Russian nationalism,
examine its impact on the foreign policy decision-making process, and briefly assess …

The article examines Standard & Poor's and Moody's historical data on default frequencies,
recovery rates, and rating transition probabilities to evaluate whether similarly rated …

The primary purpose of this work is to explore the impact of the process of democratization,
which is currently under way in more than thirty countries around the globe, on the propensity …

… KOZHEMIAKIN is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at
Harvard University. His recently-completed dissertation at the University oflliinois at Urbana-…