Valdai Club

Richard Weitz

Dirk Willer

Stefan Wagstyl

Elana Wilson Rowe

Da Wei

William C. Wohlforth

Wang Wen

Ganeshan Wignaraja

Nelson Wong

Cory Welt

USA

Associate Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, GW Elliott School of International Affairs. and Adjunct Fellow, Center for American Progress.

Materials

No Competition Between Russia and NATO in the Caucasus

Europeans have given much more attention to the Caucasus lately, and because of their interest NATO also develops a greater interest, in the context not necessarily of Eastern Partnership as a model but in the EU`s efforts to deepen relations with all the countries on its periphery.

Russia and Georgia – an Interrupted Dialogue

A realistic appraisal of the situation suggests that Russia and Georgia will continue to enlarge the sphere of their mutually productive relations outside the knot of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, without setting as a precondition that the other side formally surrender their principled position on the status of these two long-troubled regions.