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May 24, 2012
Embassy Policy Specialist (EPS)

The primary focus of the six-week research project in Tbilisi, Georgia, was to investigate the current status and potential of the country’s advertising industry to support the further development...

May 16, 2012
Regional Policy Symposium

In post-civil war international administrations in Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, and Kosovo, scholars and international officials expected that there would be sufficient authority and resources to...

May 16, 2012
Regional Policy Symposium

Given its history of high levels of corruption, the progress that the Republic of Georgia has made in its anti-corruption reforms since the Rose Revolution of 2003 is especially noteworthy.

May 16, 2012
Regional Policy Symposium

Post-conflict societies like Bosnia-Herzegovina, with their turbulent political, social, and economic conditions, tend to have high levels of sex trafficking. Because border patrol officers are...

May 16, 2012
Regional Policy Symposium

Non-payment of utility bills, evasion of payment through a variety of corruption schemes and fraud, and unauthorized reallocation of the costs of consumed utilities are widespread in Ukraine among...

May 16, 2012
Regional Policy Symposium

This research investigates the conditions under which Russian firms rely on criminal violence and corruption to protect property rights, and the...

May 9, 2012
Short-Term Travel Grants

Twenty years after the law “On the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression” was passed, it serves as  the major artifact of transitional justice in the Russian Federation. As such,...

April 30, 2012
Embassy Policy Specialist (EPS)

I look at the growing pressure on women in Tajik society to wear the national costume and the Islamic hijab as well as the problems faced by women who choose to dress in Western-style clothing as...

March 29, 2012
University Administration Support Program (UASP)

In this case study, Fatima Abaeva of North Ossetian State University, writes about fundraising at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

March 20, 2012
Short-Term Travel Grants

This research project examines various aspects of urban society and culture among Jews in large cities across the Russian empire such as Lodz, Odessa and Warsaw as well as medium sized centers...