Papers by Gregory Gleason
The Russian Review, Apr 1, 1993
In this enlightening and provocative book, a distinguished writer on international affairs traces... more In this enlightening and provocative book, a distinguished writer on international affairs traces the failure of Soviet nationalities policy to the formative years of the Bolshevik regime when that policy was formulated and implemented. The author explores the unfolding of the national question from pre-revolutionary period through 1930 bringing to light the broad array of national issues and nationality groups that made history in the old Soviet satellites around the Baltic.
Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya, 2011
<jats:p>In the last decade of XXth century we saw the final transition from bipolarity to a... more <jats:p>In the last decade of XXth century we saw the final transition from bipolarity to a much less understandable era of "multipolarism". This type of world is characterized by numerous competing, conflicting, offsetting each other staggered political vectors (multiple views). The first decade of XXI century is characterized by a number of events that were not foreseeable and anticipated within the established theories of international relations. American foreign policy's influence proved to be significantly stronger than expected by many people around the world – but also much less effective than estimated. Dramatic global economic upheavals in the first decade contrasted sharply with the conditions of the previous century. Changes, shifts and adjustments that are taking place today raise a lot of questions, especially about the intentions and capabilities of the United States.</jats:p>
Asian Perspective
Over the past decade, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzs-tan, and Tajikistan have participated in... more Over the past decade, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzs-tan, and Tajikistan have participated in discussions aimed at establishing the legitimacy of the west Asian borders. In April 1996 heads of state gathered in Shanghai to sign a series of doc-uments to normalize their border ...
Routledge eBooks, Apr 12, 2019
A question of federalism a federal solution to the national problem evolution of the Soviet feder... more A question of federalism a federal solution to the national problem evolution of the Soviet federal system administering Soviet federalism - criticism and reform bureaucratic nationalism nationalism resurgent.
International Affairs, 1997
... Page 3. Page 4. ew Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States JeffChinn Robert ... more ... Page 3. Page 4. ew Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States JeffChinn Robert Kaiser The University of Missouri—Columbia swiew Page 5. ...
Federalism and Nationalism, 2019
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, 2009
A series of insurgent attacks in Pakistan targeting U.S./NATO supply lines took place during the ... more A series of insurgent attacks in Pakistan targeting U.S./NATO supply lines took place during the latter half of 2008 and early 2009. As much as 75 percent of the cargo to support military operations and development programs in Afghanistan previously had been shipped through Pakistan, passing through a small number of precarious transport corridors, constrained by chokepoints and subject to disruption. As a result of insurgent attacks, carriage of supplies through the Khyber Pass along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was repeatedly interrupted for brief periods. These events in Pakistan shifted Allied attention from the southern routes to Afghanistan's northern access routes. The existing transit routes for supplies entering Afghanistan from the north passed across European and Eurasian countries and then through the Central Asian countries. This combination of port, air, rail, and road facilities came to be referred to within the framework of Afghanistan's normalization operations as the NDN-the "Northern Distribution Network." The significance of the shift of attention from the southern supply routes to the NDN was dramatically underscored by the Kyrgyz government's announcement in early February 2009 of their rescission of landing rights at the Manas airbase near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 1 The Manas airbase had been playing a vital role as a key northern transit node, particularly for NATO-ISAF 2 and U.S. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) 3 soldiers on their way to and from Afghanistan. The Kyrgyz government's decision raised alarm regarding the reliability of the United States' re-* Gregory Gleason is a professor of political science and public administration at the University of New Mexico. He also serves as a professor of Eurasian Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, where he is a seminar leader for the Center's Program for Advanced Security Studies.
Colum. J. Transnat'l L., 1990
Soviet Federalism and Republican Rights Gregory Gleason I. Introduction During 1988 and 1989, a s... more Soviet Federalism and Republican Rights Gregory Gleason I. Introduction During 1988 and 1989, a series of events occurred that highlighted the critical state of relations among the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In February 1988, public protests in the Armenian and the Azerbaidzhani republics erupted in violence. The protests were the culmination of simmering disputes over the relationship between ethnic and administrative divisions in the area. Public officials in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, a ...
More than decade after initiating some of the most ambitious administrative reform programs ever ... more More than decade after initiating some of the most ambitious administrative reform programs ever attempted, the post-communist governments of the former Soviet Union have established widely different records of success in their efforts. While restructuring has taken place in all the post-communist countries, the original objectives and expectations have varied considerably. Several of the post-communist countries are now entering the third generation of structural realignment. Others, however, have produced conditions in which movement from the second to the third phase of reform has become highly problematic. This article analyzes comparatively the experience of reform in two post communist states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, in terms of the sequencing, mechanisms, experience and results of reform efforts. The analysis focuses on government performance in structural reform. Based on the analysis, the authors propose strategic objectives for the international community’s efforts to f...
Federalism and Nationalism, 2019
International Affairs, 1987
... Will the non-Russians rebel?: State, ethnicity, and stability in the USSR. Post a Comment. CO... more ... Will the non-Russians rebel?: State, ethnicity, and stability in the USSR. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Motyl, Alexander J. PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press (Ithaca). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1987. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0801419476 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
IMPLICATIONS: The inability of Russian politicians to bring the goals of cooperation into practic... more IMPLICATIONS: The inability of Russian politicians to bring the goals of cooperation into practice energized others, including Nazarbaev, to champion a new framework-the'Eurasian community'. When it became clear that the CIS customs arrangements were ineffectual, a tripartite customs agreement among Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia in December 1995 was established. After Kyrgyzstan joined the group in December 1995, the union became widely known as the “Big Four Agreement.” Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Revolutions are always unexpected. Many of the great revolutions of the modem world - the America... more Revolutions are always unexpected. Many of the great revolutions of the modem world - the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Chinese Revolution of 1949, the Iranian Revolution of 1978 as well as many others - are examples of sweeping political change that toppled old regimes and replaced them with a new political order. These revolutions shared many features, but they were also different in many important respects. The revolutions differed in motivation, in the values they championed, and the effects they brought about. All these revolutions prevailed because in each case new political leaders and new social movements combined in ways which exceeded the anticipations and capacities of the status-quo regimes which resisted them and which they replaced. It is quite possible that factors auguring for change in many societies and in many circumstances were anticipated and countered or deterred. Arguably, these were places ripe for revolution in which revolutions did not take place. The balance between the factors of change and the factors of stability shifted toward stability. What is so often unanticipated and unexpected is how the factors shift away from stability toward change.
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, 2020
Soon after the first instance of COVID-19 in Central Asia was recorded in March 2020 in Kazakhsta... more Soon after the first instance of COVID-19 in Central Asia was recorded in March 2020 in Kazakhstan, the government took immediate steps to introduce containment and mitigation measures. As cases of COVID-19 appeared soon afterwards in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and later in Tajikistan, the governments swiftly responded, instituting emergency measures, empowering law enforcement and medical authorities to implement a broad range of counter-infection mitigation measures to protect public health. Cross-border travel restrictions were imposed. Lockdowns and sheltering-in-place restrictions were imposed in most major cities and curfews were enforced. Routine commercial air flights were canceled or significantly reduced in international and many domestic airports. New levels of visa restrictions were implemented in all the Central Asian countries. The initial infection containment measures were highly successful in curtailing the early spread of Covid-19. But governments immediately confronted a broad range of social and economic difficulties brought on by Covid-19. The sudden interruption of typical earnings and livelihoods for many people, the disruption of commercial supply chains, the cratering of commodity prices and, for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in particular, the loss of migrant labor opportunities and remittances, combined with other consequences of Covid-19 to produce a region-wide economic catastrophe. The pandemic called for immediate steps on the part of all governments in the region and focused attention on addressing the long-term social, economic, and even regional political implications.
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