Toward a U.S. Policy on Chechnya
Co-author: Scott Lindsay U.S. policy on Chechnya must bridge three objectives: cooperating with Russia on counterterrorism, stopping abuses in the conduct of the war in Chechnya, and finding a political…
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President Putin and His Generals: Bureaucratic Control and War-Fighting Culture
Since the attacks on the United States on September 11, Russian president Vladimir Putin has moved Russia decisively toward the West, staking out a prominent place in the U.S.-led antiterrorist…
The U.S. War on Terrorism: How Do Russian Muslims Respond?
In response to the September 11 terror attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., Russia’s Muslim leaders went to great lengths to make a legitimate and valid distinction between…
Assuaging Ethnic Factionalism Dagestan’s Lessons for Post-Taliban Settlement in Afghanistan
Studies of post-conflict settlement have shown that political decentralization rarely eliminates ethnopolitical violence. Yet, some form of decentralization often has to be used as a confidence building mechanism in the…
Opposition to the War in Chechnya: Antimilitarist Organizing in Russia
Patriotism, or the devoted love of one’s country, is a phenomenon that can be used in the service of the state. Often, during wartime, the militarized aspect of patriotism is…
How Russians Think about Chechnya
Human rights activists have documented mass graves, disappearances and torture, as well as the indiscriminate use of force by Russian federal forces against civilians in the current war in Chechnya.…
The Disconnect in How Russians Think about Human Rights and Chechnya: A Consequence of Media Manipulation
Despite considerable evidence collected by Russian and Western organizations of human rights abuses in Chechnya and a roll back in civil liberties in other spheres of life in Russia, survey data suggest…
Russia’s Periphery in the Global Arena: Do Regions Matter in the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy?
The conventional wisdom is that since the collapse of Communism the regions and republics of the Russian Federation have taken advantage of political and economic decentralization to articulate and conduct…
Broken Pendulum: Recentralization Under Putin
The development of center-region relations in Russia since 1990 is analogous to the oscillations of a pendulum, reflecting the changing balance between the alternative processes of decentralization and centralization. These…
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…