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Harriman Review, vol. 17, nos. 3-4
Thursday, 27 May 2010

After the August War:
A New Strategy for U.S. Engagement with Georgia

By Lincoln Mitchell and Alexander Cooley


Contents
List of Maps, Charts, and Tables 5
Acknowledgments 7
Executive Summary 9
Map of the Region 12
Introduction 13
1. The U.S. Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership 17
2. Abkhazia and South Ossetia Before and Aft er the War 23
3. Democracy 34
4. U.S. Assistance to Georgia 43
Conclusion 54
Appendices
Timeline 1: Major Military and Legal Events Regarding Abkhazia, Ajara,
and South Ossetia Since 1921 59
Timeline 2: Russian-Georgian Relations from 2003 to 2008 62
Timeline 3: June to October 2008 64
Major Agreements Signed between the Russian Federation and Abkhazia,
August 2008-March 2010 67
Bibliography 69

Harriman Review, vol. 17, no. 2
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Alexander J. Motyl
RUSSIA’S SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATIONS SINCE PERESTROIKA:
From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism to Democracy—
to Fascism? 1

Maria Sonevytsky
THREE PERSPECTIVES ON ETHNOGRAPHY FROM UKRAINE:
The Mysterious Tale of a Lost Hutsul Manuscript, Its Recovery, and the
Dialogues that Ensued 15

AT THE HARRIMAN INSTITUTE
Three Meeting Reports (Prepared by Masha Udensiva-Brenner)
I. Kimberly Marten, “Overcoming Warlords and State Failure:
Lessons from Post-Soviet Georgia” 22
II. Elmar Mammadyarov, “The Foreign Policy of Azerbaij an:
Aff ecting Factors and Priorities” 25
III. Ian C. Kelly, “An Overview of U.S.-Russia Relations” 28


Harriman Review, vol. 16, no. 4-Vol. 17, no. 1
Monday, 18 May 2009

Emily D. Johnson
Putin and Emptiness: The Place of Satire in the Contemporary Cult of Personality 1

Ellen Chances
An Event Like No Other... The Four Dimensions of Andrei Bitov 6

Livia Alexandra Paggi
Pretending Civil Society: Western NGO Scripts and Local Actors in
Post-Soviet Tajikistan 21

Serhii Plokhy
Remembering Yalta: The Politics of International History 34

David R. Marples and Uladzimir Padhol
The 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus:The Candidates, Results and Perspectives 48

Dodge Billingsley
Weaponizing the Story: Chechen and Russian Media Operations 58

Birgit Menzel
The Occupt Revival in Russia Today and Its Impact on Literature 64



Harriman Review, Vol. 16, no. 3
Saturday, 31 January 2009

Contents:

William F. Brumfield Asian Motifs in Eighteenth-Century Siberian Church Architecture

Harriman Review, Vol. 16, No. 2
Saturday, 01 November 2008

Contents:

Frank E. Sysyn Preface

Mykola Riabchuk Holodomor: The Politics of Memory and Political Infighting in Contemporary Ukraine

Liudmyla Grynevych The Present State of Ukrainian Historiography on the Holodomor and Prospects for Its Development

Hennadii Boriak Holodomor Archives and Sources: The State of the Art

Iryna Matiash Archives in Russia on the Famine in Ukraine

Harriman Review, Vol. 16, No. 1
Wednesday, 01 October 2008

Contents

Katia Shraga-Davidenko, The Yurii Lawrynenko Archive

Mark Andryczyk, Kharkiv--Paris--Kharkiv

Marko Robert Stech, Yurii Lawrynenko: In the Shadow of His "Epoch-Making" Anthology"

Bohdan Rubchak, The Displaced Heart

About the Contributors

Harriman Review, Vol. 15, Nos. 2-3
Sunday, 01 May 2005

Contents:

Rory Finnin and Adriana Helbig Prelude to a Revolution: Reflections on Observing the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine

Frank E. Sysyn Politics and Orthodoxy in Independent Ukraine

Zenon E. Kohut Facing Ukraine's Russian Legacy: Politics and History in the Late Kuchma Era

Vitaly Chernetsky The NKVD File of Mykhailo Drai-Khmara

Frank E. Sysyn The Famine of 1932-33 in the Discussion of Russian-Ukrainian Relations

Harriman Review, Vol. 15, No. 1
Monday, 01 November 2004

Contents:

Frank E. Sysyn The Famine of 1932-33 in the Discussion of Russian-Ukrainian Relations

Roundtable on Russian Privitization

Nikolai Mitrokhin Ethno Nationalist Mythology in the Soviet Party-State Apparatus

The Harriman Review, Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2
Friday, 01 November 2002

Contents:

William Korey, Jackson-Vanik: It's Origin and Impact as Russia Nears "Graduation"

Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, The Totalitarian Model and Me

Andrea Frodema, Making Sense of a Strange New World, Conversations with Russian Emigres about September 11

Tanya L. Domi, Advancing Women's Political Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Jonathan Brooks Platt, Proteus Bound and Unbound: The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee and Literature in the Soviet Schools

The Harriman Review, Vol. 13, No. 4
Tuesday, 01 October 2002

Contents:

Dodge Billingsley, Insurrection at Qala-i Jangi

Shehla Burney, Identity, Ethnicity, and Ethnogenesis: The Reintegration of Formerly Deported Crimean Tatars

Troy McGrath, Russia Reassessed: The Devil of Democratization is in the Details


The Harriman Review, Vol. 13, No. 3
Saturday, 01 December 2001

Contents:

Greta N. Slobin, D.S. Mirsky: The Death of a Modernist

Taras Kuzio, Muddling Along: The First Decade of Independent Ukraine

Dodge Billingsley, Interviews with Tengiz Sigua and Jaba Ioseliani

The Harriman Review, Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2
Sunday, 01 April 2001

Contents:

Uladzimir Padhol and David R. Marples, The Parliamentary Elections in Belarus: Lukashenka's Dress Rehearsal?

Stephen Blank, A Sacred Place is Never Empty: The External Politics of the Transcaspian

Dodge Billingsley, Baku-Ceyhan Journal 2000

Mark L. von Hagen, Review of Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Roman Szporluk

Gordon N. Bardos, Balkan History, Madeleine's War, and NATO's Kosovo

Evgeny Primakov Interviewed by Nina Khrushcheva, Separatism and Unification in the New World Order

The Harriman Review, Vol. 12, No. 4
Wednesday, 01 November 2000

Contents:

Nadia Michoustina, Introduction

Cynthia Simmons, Fly Me to the Moon: Modernism and the Soviet Space Program in Viktor Pelevin's Omon Ra

Julia Vaingurt, Base Superstructures and Technical Difficulties in Maiakovskii's America

Andrei Khrenov, Poet and Technology as the Political-Aesthetic Project: Towards the Similarity of the Russian Avant-garde of the Twenties and Stalinist Cinema

Kimberly Elman, Garden Cities and Company Towns: Tomas Bat'a and the Formation of Zlin, Czechoslovakia

The Harriman Review, Vol. 12, Nos. 2-3
Wednesday, 01 December 1999

Contents:

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Pushkin at 200

Helena Goscilo, Big-Buck Books: Pulp Fiction in Post-Soviet Russia

Natalya Ivanova, No(w)stalgia: Retro on the (Post-)Soviet Television Screen

Padma Desai, Interview with Anatoly Chubais

Dodge Billingsley, Interview with Ilias Akhmadov

Clifford Kupchan, U.S. Assistance for Democratic Reform in Russia

The Harriman Review, Vol. 12, No. 1
Wednesday, 01 September 1999

Contents:

Peter Rutland and Natasha Kogan, Corruption and the Russian Transition

Uladzimir Padhol and David R. Marples, Belarus: The Opposition and the Presidency

Mykola Ryabchuk, Ukrainian Case to Ukrainian Cause

Paul B. Henze, Was Georgia Ready for Independence?

Frederick Corney, Reviw of Andre Liebich, From the Other Shore. Russian Social Democracy after 1921