What is Driving Russia’s New Strategic Concept?
A good deal of confusion has arisen in the West about Russia's latest "Concept of National Security," which formally took effect on January 10 and was published in the weekly…
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The State of Democratization in Russia in Light of the Elections
Now that Russia has entered the new millennium with a new leader and a new parliament, it is time to take stock of the democratization process in Russia. This memo…
Economic Assistance to Russia: Ineffectual, Politicized, and Corrupt?
While it is easy to critique reform programs after the fact–and therefore also easy to dismiss critics–understanding why economic assistance to Russia seems to have failed remains a vitally important…
Russia and Regional Multilateral Security
There is a sharp contrast between how Russia views NATO and issues of European security and how Russia views the US-led security alliances in Asia with Japan (JASA) and Korea…
Who Won and Will Win Russia?
According to conventional wisdom, the United States "lost" Russia in the 1990s. This assessment can be found on the pages of The Nation, The Washington Times, The New York Times…
Food Aid to Russia: The Fallacies of US Policy
For the past nine years, the United States has provided large amounts of free and highly subsidized food to Russia. Some of this aid has come in the form of…
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Applying Lessons from Soviet Disintegration to the Russian Federation
The economic meltdown of 1998 has renewed fears that Russia is doomed to disintegrate like the star-crossed union from which it sprang in 1991. The history of the Soviet collapse…
Russian-US Relations in the Post Post-Cold War World
Other than coining of clever titles and claiming something new, is there any value to asking whether Russian-US relations are entering a post-post-Cold War world? I think so, because we…
Russia and the Rest: Economic Reform and Western Assistance
What can we learn about Russia by comparing it to the other post-Communist countries? In particular, what can we learn about the wisdom of applying the brand of economic reform promoted by…
The Company They Keep: Some Observations on Russian Management
In recent remarks delivered at Harvard University, Boris Brevnov, former Chief Executive Officer of Russian energy utility giant Unified Energy Systems (UES), noted that Russia's greatest challenge since 1991 has…