The Perch
Wilson PaceCovering regional politics across Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus
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Rare Earth Minerals in Estonia?
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In my previous article, I explored the monumental role which Romania’s hydrocarbon industry could play in the cultivation of an energy-independent Europe—not because of its scale, but rather because of its...
Reassessing the Romanian Oil Industry
An early Romanian oil field at Moreni in 1920 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
When mankind first discovered the industrial utility of petroleum two centuries ago, the Eastern European nation of Romania was the world’s first country to develop a...
The Paris Trap
Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Emmanuel Macron (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Nikol Pashinyan’s decisive victory in Armenia’s June 2026 Parliamentary Elections represented a major step forward in Yerevan’s efforts to...
Can Belarus Deter the Inevitable?
Like Ukraine, Belarus is a country whose geographic centrality between the Russian heartland and the lowlands of Central Europe has made the nation a constant target for Russian interest and intervention over the past several centuries. To...
The Polish-Soviet War, Part IV
The foundations for Lithuania’s occupation of parts of Northern Poland in 1939 (above) can be attributed to a 1921 peace deal that did very little to bring stability to Eastern Europe (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
This is the final part (IV)...
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Writes on Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus. Echols Scholar studying Foreign Affairs and Economics at the University of Virginia.
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