Two Centuries of Russian-U.S. Relations: Internal Agendas and the Mutual Construction of Images

The image of another country depends on a state’s internal agenda much more than we usually admit. Our knowledge of the life and values of the “other” is limited, so…

The Withdrawal of Russian Military Bases from Georgia: Not Solving Anything

In March 2005 negotiations over a long-stalled issue of Russian military bases in Georgia sharply accelerated. In the end of May, the foreign ministers of the two countries signed a…

Managing the Retreat: Can Russia Adapt to the Emergence of Intermediate Europe?

At the beginning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s second term, the analytical community was full of expectations that Moscow’s policy toward its post-Soviet neighbors would become more assertive. Inside Russia,…

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.…

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…

Russian Private Equity: An Opportunity for which the Time Has Not Yet Come

Private equity is a relatively common investment discipline in many Western countries and is an asset class that, over the years, has become an important component of many institutional portfolios.…

Strong Public Support for Military Reform in Russia

The Russian public strongly supports reform of the Russian military. In focus groups in summer 2002 and in a large-scale survey in January 2003, we found deep and widespread interest and anxiety…

The Yukos Affair: Terminating the Implicit Contract

On July 2, 2003, Russian law enforcement arrested billionaire Platon Lebedev, chairman of the Board of Directors of MENATEP, the financial center of the oil giant YUKOS. A few days earlier the…

Time to Get Off the Putin Path

In the last few years, Russia has become an increasingly hostile place for those who support democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. Political and social activists inside and outside Russia…

The State in the New Russia (1992-2004): From Collapse to Gradual Revival?

The very notion of the state implies that public authorities hold monopolies on three functions: Legitimate use of violence Provision of revenues by collecting taxes Control of monetary emission All…

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