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Promoting a Strong Civil Society: US Foreign Assistance and Russian NGOs

In February 1997, President Clinton launched the Partnership for Freedom, a new program of bilateral assistance for democracy promotion in Russia and the other NIS countries. This program asks for…

The Russian National Security Concept: A Liberal-Statist Synthesis

In the immediate aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Soviet ideas and interests had been thoroughly discredited, and Russia's domestic political, economic, and social system had…

Empowerment, Ricochets and End-Runs: Russia’s Integration with Western Human Rights Institutions and Practices

Russia's integration with Western institutions is proceeding along several different fronts. US media and policy analysts have emphasized two aspects of this process: the economic (increasingly dense ties between Russian…

Russia’s Financial Meltdown: Causes and Policy Responses

We have to recognize that the Russian financial meltdown is a product of two factors: (A) a policy of accumulating debt to cover huge Russian fiscal deficits, which had been…

Russia’s Fiscal Veto on CIS Integration

When the words "Russia" and "Near Abroad" emerge in the same sentence, they usually conjure up visions of imperialism and political subversion. In this brief, I argue that Russia has…

Why Military Dissatisfaction Is Not a Threat to the Russian State

It is a well known fact that the Russian military today is in terrible shape. Funding shortfalls are so severe that basic needs go unmet. Neither officers nor troops get…

Russian-American Relations in the Post-Cold War Environment

Five years into the brave new world ushered in by the collapse of the Communist system and the dramatic reshuffle of global geopolitics there has emerged a novel paradigm of…

The Current Russian Economic Crisis is Neither

The ruble's imminent plummet, amid increasing revenue shortages and foreign debt, has been the focus of international attention toward Russia and elite domestic strife within Russia for the past several…

The Economization, Rationalization, and Normalization of Russian Foreign Policy

Russian foreign policy is increasingly driven by economic factors which rationalize and make it more like that of "normal" countries. Russian foreign and security policy is being "economized" in that…

The New Tribalism and America’s Russia Policy

Since the end of the Cold War, analysts have been grasping for a way to characterize and understand the new security situation–both in Europe and in the rest of the…

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