Easing Extremism
Nizhniy Novgorod—As we have seen in recent news, there are great challenges concerning migration, integration, and violence in Russia today. This has become noticeable even in quiet Nizhniy Novgorod, where…
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Extending the ‘Reset’ in U.S.-Russia Relations
Was the ratification of the New START treaty the one and only sign of the reset between the United States and Russia? What is the direction for their new relationship?…
New Actors, Old Obstacles: Security Cooperation in Eurasia
The main obstacle to developing an appropriate security architecture for post-Soviet Eurasia are the number of perceptual and conceptual gaps that exist among the actors involved. Major states and regional…
What’s Wrong with Security Cooperation in Eurasia?
Because national security outlooks are determined by objective factors such as geography, resources, and historical and cultural traditions, different understandings and meanings of the term and concept of “security” exist…
Black Sea Security and the Rising Role of Religion
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), like any autocephalous church, has an exclusive territory of jurisdiction, but its canonical territory extends beyond Russia’s state borders. Russian authorities would like to reinforce…
The Geopolitics of Resurgent Russia: How Medvedev’s Russia Sees the World
Under President Dmitri Medvedev, Russia has begun the complicated process of redefining its role in international affairs. While this process is grounded in the achievements of the pre-Medvedev era, Russia…
New Tasks for Traditional and New Actors in Contemporary Russia
Events of the last decade in Russia have demonstrated the increasing role of society as a whole on the conduct of policy. Although the most reliable and effective instruments of…
The United States and Russia Today: A Practical Partnership
U.S.-Russian relations today can be characterized best as pragmatic. But this pragmatism is a very specific one. The partnership between Russia and the United States is driven by expediency rather than principle…
Why Did Russia Welcome a Republican Victory?
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed George W. Bush’s victory in the U.S. presidential race before the announcement of the official results. The contemporary Russian political elite has preferred conservative, more pragmatic Republicans…
A Fresh Start in U.S.-Russian Relations?
Considering September 2001 as the turning of an important political page not only for U.S.-Russian relations, but also for general international relations as well is tempting. So far, though, the…