The price of normalizing Russia

Issue 4/2026: Fragility of peace

As we are well into the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, old questions are beginning to stir from beneath the surface, particularly: how should the West engage with Russia, if at all?

Issue 3/2025: Negotiating Peace?

Trump, Putin and the future of Ukraine

Issue 1-2/2025: Layers of Legacy

Yesterday's (un)forgotten co-existence

6/2024: Age of uncertainty

Issue 1/2023: In the throes of crises

The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine. The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries.

Issue 6/2022: Point of no return

New thinking is needed in policies towards Russia, in whatever form it will take after the war.

Issue 5/2022: Loss and division

Ukraine’s suffering goes well beyond the front line.

Issue 4/2022: Values under Siege

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we now see our western values under siege, whether we consciously recognise it or not.

Issue 3/2022: The Pain of War

The invasion by Russian forces of Ukraine from the north, south and east – with the initial aim to take the capital Kyiv – has changed our region, and indeed our world, forever.

Issue 1-2/2022: Tug of war?

The situation with Russian threats towards Ukraine once again illustrates the high level of instability in our region.

Issue 6/2021: The Road to Pax Caucasia

Only a year ago we witnessed the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It took at least 5,000 lives and significantly shifted the geopolitics in the South Caucuses.

Issue 5/2021: Belarusians. One year in protest

This special issue aims to honour the plight of Belarusians whose democratic choice made in August 2020 was shamelessly snubbed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Issue 4/2021: Ukraine's Unfinished Story

From the social, economic and political points of view, a lot of work still remains for this country. And this is why Ukraine’s story is incomplete.

Issue 3/2021: Tales from the Baltics

30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union

Issue 1-2/2021: Whither Democracy?

And what lies ahead for our region...

Issue 6/2020: Understanding Values in Uncertain Times

Our societies are more polarised than ever before, which makes them more susceptible to disinformation, untruth and conspiracy theories.

Issue 5/2020: Juggling a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed limitations and weaknesses in nearly all countries around the world.

issue 4/2020: The Kremlin's Hybrid War

The case of Georgia

Issue 3/2020: The War in Donbas

Its costs, challenges and the commitment to peace.

Issue 1-2/2020: Bound to Explode?

Uncertainty, volatility and the relationship between Russia and the West.

Issue 6/2019: New (Old) Faces?

A true makeover or cosmetic change?

Issue 5 2019: The Black Sea region

The Black Sea region is quickly becoming a geopolitical battleground which is gaining the interest of major powers, regional players and smaller countries – and the stakes are only getting higher.

Issue 3-4/2019: Eastern Partnership turns 10

This issue is dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership as well as the 30 years since the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe.

Issue 2 2019: Postmodern Geopolitics

The consequences of the emerging multipolar world.

Issue 1 2019: Public intellecturals

This issue takes a special look at the role and responsibility of the public intellectual in Central and Eastern Europe today.

Issue 6/2018: 1918. The year of independence

In the eastern parts of the European continent, 1918 is remembered not only as the end of the First World War, but also saw the emergence of newly-independent states and the rise of geopolitical struggles which are felt until this day.

Issue 5/2018: What's new with Belarus?

It often seems, at least from the outside, that Belarus remains isolated from the West and very static in its transformation. Yet, despite its relative isolation, Belarus is indeed changing.

Issue 3-4/2018: Para-states. Life beyond geopolitics

The Summer 2018 issue of New Eastern Europe tackles the complexity of para-states in the post-Soviet space.