Georgian Lessons: Conflicting Russian and Western Interests in the Wider Europe
Russia's invasion, occupation, and partition of Georgia in August 2008 initially sent shock waves throughout Europe and NATO. This volume places the conflict in the context of Russia's broader objectives, its internal weaknesses, the limitations of EU and NATO policies, and America s security priorities.
CSIS Press, 2010
Return of the Balkans: Challenges to European Integration and U.S. Disengagement
This monograph focuses on the escalating security challenges facing the Western Balkans, assesses the shortcomings and deficiencies of current international engagement, considers future prospects for U.S. military involvement, and offers recommendations for curtailing conflict and promoting the region’s international institutional integration.
Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2013
Conflict Zones: North Caucasus and Western Balkans Compared
Janusz Bugajski enhances our understanding of the causes and consequences of the current conflicts in the North Caucasus and extrapolates likely scenarios in the region's development. He compares and contrasts conditions in the North Caucasus with the former Yugoslav federation in the Western Balkans.
Washington DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2014
Eurasian Disunion: Russia’s Vulnerable Flanks (with Margarita Assenova)
Eurasian Disunion: Russia’s Vulnerable Flanks examines the impact of Moscow’s neo-imperial project on the security of several regions bordering the Russian Federation, analyses the geopolitical aspects of Kremlin ambitions, and makes recommendations for the future role of NATO, the EU, and the United States in the Wider Europe.
Washington DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2016
Pivotal Poland: Europe’s Rising Power
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine precipitated a tectonic shift in European security dynamics, ending a relatively peaceful post–Cold War phase and moving the epicenter of European security eastward, to Poland. Janusz Bugajski explores the nature and context of Warsaw’s determined efforts to shape NATO’s eastern policy and to build a strong, modern military able to resist Russian aggression.
Washington DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2025
Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture by Janusz Bugajski
Bugajski considers the factors contributing to a possible Russian state collapse, among them lack of economic growth, stark socioeconomic inequalities, distrust of government institutions, regional and ethnic revivals, and most recently, the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Washington DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2022 (translated into Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Montenegrin).