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Nuclear Programs in North Korea and Iran: Assessing Russia’s Position

Russia has not figured in the US presidential campaign for a number of obvious reasons. When Russian policy was touched upon–and nearly transformed into a scandal against one of the…

Accessing the Inaccessible: The Case for Opening Up Russia’s Closed Cities

The selling of weapons-related nuclear knowledge by Russian scientists for economic gain constitutes a threat to US national security. Some estimate that the number of Russian scientists seeking permanent employment…

The Forgotten Abkhazia: Anatomy of Post-Socialist Ethnic War

Local wars in the Caucasus have always tended to follow precedents–whether in the 19th century, in 1917-21, or in the period of 1989-94. It remains uncertain whether the NATO operation…

Nuclear De-emphasizing in Russia’s Military Thinking: Phantom or Reality?

Shortly after coming into power, Russian President Vladimir Putin's administration significantly changed Moscow's foreign and security priorities. These changes were based upon the realization that the real and present danger…

Will the West Reduce Russia’s Debt?

Having successfully rescheduled its debt to foreign commercial banks through the London Club last fall and obtained a reduction of principal and interest rates, Russia now turns to the Paris…

Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution in Nagorno-Karabakh

Efforts to resolve ethnic conflict often run aground of the passionate public hostility that underlies them, as the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence illustrates. These popular passions are often the biggest obstacles…

Putin’s Boost-Phase Defense: The Offer That Wasn’t

When President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to work together with the United States on building a missile defense system, it was quite a surprise, to say the…

The Myths About Unilateral Nuclear Arms Reduction

The idea that unilateral reduction of nuclear arms is preferable to the traditional but slower process of negotiated formal arms control treaties that dominated US Soviet/Russian relations for three decades…

Russia’s Strategic Partnerships and Global Security

In the first post-Cold War decade the international system has experienced a period of relative peace among the great powers not seen since the Concert of Europe made its debut…

‘Kosovo Syndrome’ and the Great Nuclear Debate of 2000

In the summer of 2000, a long-simmering conflict within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) burst into the open in a series of leaks to the media that culminated in…

The Politics of Labor Code Reform in Putin’s Russia

The recent announcement of a merger between the pro-Kremlin Unity party and Yuri Luzhkov's Fatherland movement (arguably the foremost anti-Kremlin force in the 1999 Duma campaign) was viewed by knowledgeable…

A Dangerous Balancing Act: Karimov, Putin, and the Taliban

Less than six months ago, several related events in Afghanistan suggested anything but an impending peace agreement among hostile neighbors in this war-torn region. Tensions among the relevant actors in…

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