Viktor Kaspruk

Michael L. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (with Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, 1966) is the author of the book Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia that has become a tangible contribution to the studies of...

Dr. Roman Wolczuk, a British researcher of Ukraine, is well known both in the West and in Ukraine. He is the author of three books, including Ukraine’s Foreign and Security Policy, 1991—2000, and a large number of publications in academic journals and in the British and US press periodicals,...

On a quiet, sunny, and bitterly cold morning, passersby hurrying on their way to work or the grocery store glanced in horror at the motionless figure of a man lying spread-eagled on the trampled snow. The man’s head was covered with a dirty piece of once transparent plastic, and a half-open bag...

The inauguration of the new Polish president on Dec. 24 ended the long “Kwasniewski era.” A new period has begun in Polish history. The left-leaning Alexander Kwasniewski has been replaced by Lech Kaczynski, a liberal nationalist, who fears deep European integration and believes in the need to...

How new is the new government? How is it different from the previous one? Is it succeeding in keeping the promises given to Ukrainians on the Maidan twice, in the winter of 2005 and eight months later, on Independence Day? With the approaching official parliamentary election date, this subject is...