Civil society organizations are well placed to assess the country’s institutional capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Armenia has undergone three waves of local governance reform since its independence in 1991. Where does the country stand now?

The impact of climate change on agriculture in the new member states of the European Union, which potentially includes droughts, storms, hail, heavy rainfall causing flashfloods and pests, has been addressed by a number of...

Finding ways to make human development progress truly sustainable for the seven billion people who now live on our planet and for generations to come is a central challenge of the 21st century. 2011 Human Development Report...

Integrated investment plans have been an important part of the response to the economic crisis. This article briefly reviews these plans in five Russian cities.

2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the acceleration of political and economic transitions in what had been called the Soviet bloc. Perhaps ironically, this anniversary coincides with...

Phillip Hanson looks at the issues surrounding Russia’s lengthy accession process to the WTO.