Kenneth Yalowitz

Kenneth Yalowitz is Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and was U.S. ambassador to Belarus and Georgia

Get real about ‘enlarging Europe’

Membership of EU and NATO continues to be a thorny question for the countries of Eastern Europe and for Turkey. Arrangements short of full membership offer economic and security benefits and should be the way forward, contend Denis Corboy, William Courtney and Kenneth Yalowitz

By William Courtney, Denis Corboy and Kenneth Yalowitz

/ 21 Oct 2010

Central Asia: new security challenges

Kyrgyzstan’s violence underscores the instability of those former Soviet governments which are burdened by authoritarian and corrupt rule. To varying degrees, every Central Asian country faces serious threats at home and from the war in neighboring Afghanistan. They need help. The West and Russia

By William Courtney, Denis Corboy and Kenneth Yalowitz

/ 9 Apr 2010

Russian Reform at a Turning Point

Much of Russian history is characterized by pendulum swings between orthodoxy and reform to overcome backwardness. Russia is again debating reform and the West has a vital stake.

By William Courtney, Denis Corboy and Kenneth Yalowitz

/ 12 Feb 2010

Forward, Mr President!

Dear Mr. President, Your September 10 article on Russia's challenges is laudably frank and incisive in its analysis and call for sweeping reform. You voiced the belief of

By William Courtney, Denis Corboy and Kenneth Yalowitz

/ 21 Sep 2009

Beware Russia’s three tinderboxes

Denis Corboy is director of the Caucasus Policy Institute at Kings College London and was European Commission ambassador to Georgia and Armenia. William Courtney was U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan

By William Courtney, Denis Corboy and Kenneth Yalowitz

/ 1 Sep 2009