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Thomas de Waal

Turkey Jun 8, 2016 Snapshot

Germany and the Armenian Genocide

On June 2, Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, voted to declare the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide. The Germans are not the first to...

Thomas de Waal

Turkish ultra-nationalists shout slogans in front of the German Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, during a protest against a resolution by Germany's parliament that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a

Global Institutions January/February 2015 Essay

The G-Word

A century on, discussions about the Ottoman massacre of Armenians are still dominated by questions surrounding the use of one fraught and divisive word: “Genocide.”...

Thomas de Waal

Strategy & Conflict Sep 26, 2014 Snapshot

Azerbaijan Doesn't Want To Be Western

Azerbaijan claims to be interested in the Western liberal order. In reality, the country’s elites want to increase their wealth without threatening Azerbaijan’s...

Thomas de Waal

Politics & Society Dec 9, 2013 Response

Debating Saakashvili

Will the Georgian president's legacy be defined by his achievements or his failures?

Natalia Antelava and Thomas de Waal

Politics & Society Oct 29, 2013 Snapshot

So Long, Saakashvili

It was the singular achievement of Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president since 2003, to have elevated his country's capacity for charm into the centerpiece of a...

Thomas de Waal

Saakashvili, Clinton, and Gordon in front of a ferris wheel in Batumi.

Economic Development Dec 5, 2012 Snapshot

No America in the Caucasus

Nine years after Georgia's Rose Revolution, its leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, was soundly defeated in parliamentary elections by the country's richest man. As the hope...

Thomas de Waal

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