Mortality and life expectancy in post-communist countries
The transition to the market economy and democracy in Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union countries in the 1990s caused a dramatic increase in...
The Armenian protests were just that: Armenian
When a social movement is successful in achieving its goals it's easy to look beyond the protesters and their calls for change. However, the...
Could Putin’s new term mean a new government structure for Russia?
On Monday 7 May, President Putin began his second consecutive term after being re-elected in March. On the same day he proposed Dmitry Medvedev...
UNESCO and the DOC focus on educational programmes to foster dialogue
On the 9th on April 2018, across Paris, Almaty, Moscow, Berlin, and several other cities, an online conference on dialogue was held, co-organised by...
The dynamics of extremism in Russia
On 11 April 2017, the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute held a roundtable on the dynamics of extremism in Russia, moderated by Prof. Alexey...
Elements of a road map for European security
Moscow and Berlin continue to sharply disagree on many critical international matters. After the Ukraine crisis, ‘business as usual’ has been impossible and will...
DOC TV Talk: Common vision for Eurasia
Dr. Jacopo Maria Pepe and Peter W. Schulze discuss if there is a common Eurasian geopolitical player and if there is a common vision...
Mark Farha comments on the political situation in the Middle East
Mark Farha, an Associate Fellow of the University of Bielefeld and former Senior Associate Member at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, comments on the political situation...
A fluid equilibrium to replace the nation-state: Jacopo Maria Pepe on Eurasian geopolitics
Berlin – It was an inspiring glance into the future of the 21st century that the political scientist and Eurasia specialist, Jacopo Maria Pepe,...
How the Soviet elite lost faith in socialism in the 1980s
As early theoreticians of socialism believed, a centrally planned economy organised rationally – the whole society working as one single plant – should be...