In this fascinating study of unfinished nation-building in Belarus, Grigory Ioffe draws on his two dozen research trips to the country to trace Belarus's history, geography, political situation, socie
Ioffe (geography, Radford U.) complains that most Western understandings of Belarus are characterized by a combination of ignorance and cliche (e.g. "an authoritarian cesspool," "a bastard of Europe,"
With the collapse of the USSR, fifteen fledgling sates inherited a massive Soviet arsenal, unstable political systems, and desperate economies. A "sell everything" mentality threatens to result in the
"Three former western Soviet republics - Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova - now find themselves torn between the European Union and the increasingly assertive Russia. This volume examines the foreign and
Drawing upon a series of elite interviews, focus groups and representative surveys, Identity and Foreign Policy Perceptions in the Other Europe maps changing definitions of statehood in Russia, Ukrain
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2016, held in Minsk, Belarus, in June 2016. The 25 papers presented in this
A collaboration between a National Book Award–winning journalist and a prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe In the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underg
Due in large part to the authors' unique connections to the region, this collection of essays provides a valuable look inside the party politics of the post-Soviet states.
This book analyses how EU transit (and hence energy) security is affected by the governance structures of the Eurasian gas network and by asymmetrical power relations between its actors, in particular
