Contact Lenses: Transparency and US-Russian Military Ties

US and NATO soldiers and sailors are making an extremely important contribution to American security interests by doing the unexpected: fraternizing with their counterparts from Russia, a country that may…

Domestic Structure, Economic Growth, and Russian Foreign Policy

Although Russia seems to be in perpetual economic crisis and political transition, it is not too early to begin contemplating the impact of economic growth on Russian foreign policy. Even…

The Regionalization of Autocracy in Russia

Despite the clear progress in Russian democratization at the federal level, the trend appears to be in the opposite direction at the regional level, a movement spearheaded by the Federation's…

Domestic Politics and Russia’s Caspian Policy

The known volume of Caspian oil and gas reserves is immense, and new discoveries are reported regularly. With deposits of oil alone totaling perhaps 200 billion tons, the Caspian stands…

Could Norway Trigger a Nuclear War? Notes on the Russian Command and Control System

Next January, Norway is planning to launch a research rocket similar to the one that caused a false alarm in the Russian strategic command and control system in 1995. An…

Yeltsin’s Latest Military Reform Initiative: Operational-Strategic Commands

This fall the Yeltsin administration announced a new military reform initiative: the transformation of existing military districts into operational strategic commands. While the proposed system has been adopted in order…

Russia’s International Integration and Caspian Sea Oil

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's international integration has been complicated by both its economic weakness and its unpredictable foreign policy. In 1996-97, as a result of the…

Current Russian Views on US-Russian Security Relations and Military Reform

I recently returned from a research trip to Moscow and wanted to pass on some impressions. While there, I conducted interviews on two different issues: military reform and political party…

The Rise and Fall of the Russian Internal Troops?

The conventional wisdom among both Russian and Western analysts is that the Internal Troops (VV) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) have been a bureaucratic Pac-Man since the…

Is Russia Disappointed with Western Theories?

Since the days of perestroika, Russia has sought knowledge about federalism based on the experiences of Europe and the United States. But, today, comparisons between Russia and the West…

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