Foreign Affairs (July/August 2010)

“Prisoners of the Caucasus” (with Rajan Menon)
International Herald Tribune (June 23, 2010)

“City on the Edge: Is Sevastopol the Next European Flash Point?”
The American Interest (May/June 2009)

“The Five-Day War”
Foreign Affairs (November/December 2008)

“NATO’s First Line of Defense: It Shouldn’t Be Here”
Washington Post (November 30, 2008)

“Russo-Georgian Conflict Is Not All Russia’s Fault”
Christian Science Monitor (August 11, 2008)

“Bring the Phantom Republics In From the Cold”
International Herald Tribune (September 14, 2006)

“Crisis in the Caucasus” (review of Matthew Evangelista, The Chechen Wars)
Foreign Affairs (March/April 2003)

“Potemkin Democracy: Five Myths About Post-Soviet Georgia”
The National Interest (July 1, 2001)