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…
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The Dissonant Concert: US-Russian Relations in the UN Security Council
How can we best understand the ambiguous relationship between the United States and Russia in the United Nations today? On the one hand, their debates and disagreements are heated, and…
Access, Influence and Policy Change: The Multiple Roles of NGOs in Post-Soviet States
The US government, American foundations, and international agencies have devoted significant sums over the past decade to promoting the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia and other former Soviet…
How NATO’s War in Yugoslavia is Making Foreign Policy in Moscow
It is reasonable to expect that NATO's war against Yugoslavia would produce obvious effects on Russian foreign policy. NATO's actions against Belgrade should have heightened Moscow's suspicion of the West–NATO…
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…
Russian Nuclear Forces in Ten Years with and without START II
In recent months the United States and Russia have made an attempt to revive the arms control dialogue. But instead of bringing a solution to the problems that hold up nuclear disarmament,…
The Death of Arms Control: Popular Myths About What Russia Can and Will Do
To some, the title of this memo might seem an overstatement. After all, Russia is engaged in two sets of important arms control negotiations. The CFE-2 talks are nearing completion and the…
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…
Strategies for US Democracy Assistance to Russia After Market Failure
While the collapse of Russia's market last summer did not destroy new, partially-formed, post-Soviet political and social institutions, their condition this winter is far from stable. The non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…
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…