Has Russia Achieved a Victory in Its War Against Terror?
Russia launched its own war against terror in September 1999 when the country, shocked by twin bomb attacks in Moscow, made a contract with newly appointed prime minister Vladimir Putin.…
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Post-Soviet Realpolitik: Russian Policy After the Color Revolutions
Russian policy toward Georgia and Ukraine after the color revolutions presents an example of a realpolitik answer to a normative policy challenge. Here we see one of the widest discursive…
Xenophobia in Russia: Are the Young Driving It?
Since the mid-1990s, human rights groups, scholars, government agencies, and the media in the Russian Federation have documented a rising wave of individual and group acts of violence, destruction, or…
Linkages Between Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in Nuclear Smuggling: A Case Study of Chelyabinsk Oblast
An analysis of the cities in Russia’s Chelyabinsk oblast where weapons of mass destruction are researched and produced reveals that there are increasing threats that terrorist groups could use existing…
The Changing Context of Russian Federal Policy in the North Caucasus
A year ago, the prospects for stability in the North Caucasus appeared dim at best. Violent clashes, bombings, and terrorist attacks in Chechnya remained common and continued to produce bloodshed,…
The Kosovo Precedent in Russia’s Georgia Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the argument that U.S. and European recognition of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence will create a significant international precedent so many times that no…
On Double Standards: Toward Strategic Liberalism in U.S. Russia Policy
Over the past year, perhaps no single theme has become more prominent among Russian diplomats, officials, and journalists commenting on relations with the United States than the refrain that the…
Illicit Drug Trafficking and Islamic Terrorism as Threats to Russian Security: The Limits of the Linkage
The post-9/11 war against terrorism has increased international attention to illicit drug business as a source of terrorist financing. For politicians and the media, the contentious term narcoterrorism has become…
Russia and the Prompt Global Strike Plan
Prompt Global Strike is a concept the U.S. military has been developing since the start of the decade. Its goal is to give the U.S. military the capability to attack…
The Political and Legal Parameters of Russian Decisionmaking on Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, was in some ways an anticlimactic event. It was widely expected, as were the immediate reactions: recognition by the United…