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A Sober Second Look: Reassessing the Logic of Missile Defense

Debates regarding American implementation of a national missile defense (NMD) and theater missile defense (TMD) systems designed to shoot down incoming nuclear missiles have so far focused on such issues…

Islam in Russian Society and Politics: Survival and Expansion

In modern times, whether "healthy" or "sick" from an economic and political standpoint, Russia has managed to preoccupy outside observers with the changing condition of its psyche. What was known…

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…

Nuclear Programs in North Korea and Iran: Assessing Russia’s Position

Russia has not figured in the US presidential campaign for a number of obvious reasons. When Russian policy was touched upon–and nearly transformed into a scandal against one of the…

The Multiple Dimensions of Russian Threat Assessment

The first three threats, though distinct, are closely related in assessing how the outside world is perceived in Russian foreign and security policy. Various official documents (including the national security…

The Russian Constitution and Foreign Policy: Regional Aspects

Internationalization is in progress on a global scale as national governments respond to an expanding range of international linkages, economic interdependence, and the demands of policy issues that can no…

Nuclear De-emphasizing in Russia’s Military Thinking: Phantom or Reality?

Shortly after coming into power, Russian President Vladimir Putin's administration significantly changed Moscow's foreign and security priorities. These changes were based upon the realization that the real and present danger…

What Is At Stake For The United States In The Sino-Russian Friendship Treaty?

The new Treaty on Good-Neighborly Relations, Friendship, and Cooperation signed by Russia and China on July 16, 2001, was immediately discounted by the Bush administration as merely a reaffirmation of…

The New Federal Structure: More Centralized, or More of the Same?

Almost immediately after being sworn in as president in May 2000, Vladimir Putin began restructuring the institutions that regulate center-periphery relations in the Russian Federation. In part, Putin has expressed…

Putin’s Boost-Phase Defense: The Offer That Wasn’t

When President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to work together with the United States on building a missile defense system, it was quite a surprise, to say the…

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