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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…

Russia’s Policy in the Former Soviet Union and the New Challenges to the United States Eurasia Policy

With Vladimir Putin’s presidential inauguration in May 2000, Russian policy toward the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union began to change. By the end of 2001 these changes…

Russia and U.S. Policy Toward Iraq Conflict of Interests and Limits of Dissent

Throughout much of the 1990s, the United States could not rely on the support of any ally except the United Kingdon (UK) for its unilateralist military strikes against Iraq. In view…

Russian-U.S. Cooperation in Preventing Megaterrorism: Opportunities and Limits

The prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—is one of the few areas where U.S. and Russian vital interests coincide. Both states consider WMD proliferation as a…

Separately Together: U.S. and Russian Approaches to Political Settlement in Afghanistan

The sudden collapse of Taliban power in Kabul and other cities in the north of Afghanistan, followed by the liberation of most of Afghanistan from Taliban control, happened much faster…

Chechnya: 9/11, the Moscow Hostage Crisis, and Opportunity for Political Settlement

Having enlisted Putin’s support in the global war on terrorism, the White House has not publicly protested the continuing zachistki (cleansing raids) and other systematic abuses of Chechen civilians by the…

Russia’s Relationship with China After September 11

Putin’s decision that Russia would join and actively support the U.S. fight against international terrorism potentially changes to a very significant degree Russia’s constellation of relations in the Far East.…

Attempts under Putin to Create a Unified Economic Space in Russia

Has President Vladimir Putin made any headway in reversing the trend of decentralization (or literally disintegration) that characterized the Russian economy in the 1990s? To answer this question, this paper…

The Russian Navy after the Kursk: Still Proud but with Poor Navigation

Raising the giant Russian nuclear submarine Kursk after it sank on August 12, 2000, in the Barents Sea and then delivering it safely to dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk,…

The United States’ Northern Dimension? Prospects for a U.S.-Russian Cooperative Agenda in Northern Europe

The recent terrorist attacks against the United States and the dramatic developments in the Middle East have diverted public attention from other regions where dynamic and impressive changes are occurring,…

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