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The Finlandization of Russia? The Kremlin’s Geopolitical and Geo-economic Choices

Since the late 1990s, relations between Russia and the West have gradually but steadily deteriorated. Disagreements over the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), wars in Bosnia…

New Challenges to US-Russian Relations

The end of the "honeymoon" period between the United States and Russia has left US-Russian relations in a state of volatile ambiguity. The two countries need to quickly work out…

The Views of the Russian Elite Toward NATO Membership

During more than half a century of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) existence, the attitudes of Soviet and Russian leaders to this alliance have been anything but indifferent. At…

Repairing Relations with Russia Through NATO

Repairing relations with Russia should be one of NATO's top priorities in the next five years. Given the centrality of NATO to American security, the US and Russia will not…

Russian Policy and the Potential for Agreement on Revising the ABM Treaty

Little mystery surrounds Russian policy toward US proposals to revise the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in order to develop a national missile defense (NMD). Moscow views the ABM treaty as…

Explaining the International Community’s Response to the War in Chechnya

In between his night at the opera with Tony Blair and his tea with Queen Elizabeth, Vladimir Putin refused to see Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

How NATO’s War in Yugoslavia is Making Foreign Policy in Moscow

It is reasonable to expect that NATO's war against Yugoslavia would produce obvious effects on Russian foreign policy. NATO's actions against Belgrade should have heightened Moscow's suspicion of the West–NATO…

Explaining Russia’s Dissention on Kosovo

Russia's disagreement with the West on the recent crisis in Kosovo and its opposition to NATO's decision to use military force against Serbia were particularly bitter. In trying to explain…

Russia, Kosovo, and Security Cooperation

Increasingly, discussion of policy options to salvage the disastrous US policy on Kosovo has turned to the prospect of an intervention mission with ground forces. The primary American objection to…

How Kosovo Empowers the Russian Military

The Russian military is gaining influence within Russia as a result of NATO involvement in Kosovo. The crisis is providing a pretext for the military to increase its leverage over politicians and…

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