ABSTRACT
Lithuania seems to be the least Westernized of the Baltic States. However, with all its quirks and problems, its overall positive condition is a far cry from the divisive predicament that Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova find themselves in. The largest and most populous of all the Intermarium's newly independent nations, Ukraine is mired in a plethora of challenges. Ukraine has struggled to maintain a parliamentary democracy. Post-1991 Belarus is an oddity even in the Intermarium. Belarusian bicameralism is a unique feature in the Intermarium, and, perhaps, a strange nod toward the constitution of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Moldova is also the only post-Soviet successor state in the Intermarium with a past of challenging the international boundaries of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Although some Moldovan schemes are sui generis, the post-Communists and their allies have also borrowed various institutional arrangements from their Intermarium neighbors.
