Posts Tagged ‘USSR’
Fri Aug 19, 2011 14:18 GMT |
Today, August 19, marks 20 years since the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Although it could be argued that the USSR was already collapsing well before August 19, 1991, it’s also fair to say that the coup attempt by hardliners that took place on that day to preserve the Union ultimately hastened… [Read more]
Tags: 20th Anniversary, Boris Yeltsin, China, collapse of Soviet Union, coup, Donald James, Fall of the Russian Empire, Mikhail Gorbachev, Natalya Roginova, North Caucasus, Siberia, USSR, Vladimir Putin
Posted in: Book Review, Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, oil and gas, Political Risk
Mon Nov 9, 2009 17:46 GMT |
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism in Europe was probably inevitable, given the inability of the Communist system to compete economically with the West. We now hear that communism was ‘unsustainable’ and I largely agree, but at the same time I don’t think it was inevitable that the Berlin Wall… [Read more]
Tags: 20th Anniversary, cold war, consequences, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, Gorbachev, historical context, implications, Pope John Paul II, ramifications, Reagan, Soviet Union, USSR
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk
Wed May 27, 2009 14:56 GMT |
Moldova is in the midst of yet another political crisis. By this, I actually mean that the country has entered a new phase of a pre-existing crisis – a crisis that yields valuable lessons on the broader significance of political institutions to a country’s risk profile. Fortunately, this new scene in the ongoing drama has… [Read more]
Tags: authoritarianism, Belarus, CEE, Central Asia, Constitution, crisis, Czech Republic, democracy, democratisation, Emerging Europe, Institutions, Legislature, Moldova, policymaking, Political Risk, political stability, political system, post-Soviet, president, Ukraine, USSR
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Geopolitics, Political Risk