Central Europe Digest
Ukraine – the Neighbor and the Neighborhood

1 February 2010

Why does Ukraine’s presidential election matter for the United States and Central Europe? CEPA Senior Fellow Edward Lucas shares his insight into what’s at stake.
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A Collision of Rhetoric: U.S. Interests in Central Europe

1 February 2010

Do strategic anxieties in Central Europe suggest the need for a more serious American commitment? CEPA Senior Fellow Jakub Grygiel argues that a relatively modest U.S. investment in the region now could yield long-term dividends.
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Issue Brief No. 108: Counting the Costs of Insecurity in North Central Europe

1 February 2010

Uncertainty among NATO’s exposed members is unhealthy for the United States and the Alliance. CEPA’s A. Wess Mitchell and Robert Kron examine policy options for lasting reassurance.
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Publications
Report No. 29: Central Europe and NATO: Still Married, but in Need of Counseling
2 December 2009

CEPA Advisory Council Member Andrew A. Michta offers a compelling analysis of NATO’s internal and external challenges. Nowhere are these difficulties more evident than in Central Europe, “where the South Ossetia war fundamentally changed the geostrategic environment, raising the specter of a new fault line forming along NATO’s Eastern border.”
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Report No. 28: From Crisis to Recovery, Central Europe’s Winners and Losers
2 November 2009

CEPA Associate Scholar Eva M. Blaszczynski offers a sobering analysis of Central Europe’s economic decline and emerging recovery. “The days of enviable growth rates, large-scale capital flows and abundance of cheap foreign credit are over,” writes Blaszczynski. However, clear winners and losers are emerging in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
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Newsroom
Edward Lucas and Jakub Grygiel Join CEPA
13 January 2010

Distinguished policy experts Edward Lucas and Jakub Grygiel have joined CEPA as senior fellows working on issues in Central European geopolitics.
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European Pipe Dreams Meet Chinese Pipelines
4 January 2010

Peter B. Doran writes in Foreign Policy Magazine on the ways in which Europe is paying the price for its muddled approach to energy security.
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