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Short-Term Compromises and Long-Term Dangers for Russian-American Security Cooperation

Russia's current economic and military weakness should not make anyone complacent about the long-term potential for a resurgent Russian threat to international security. Now is the time for the United…

Clinton’s Moscow Mission

When presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin meet in Moscow next month, issues such as START II, NATO expansion, trade with Iran and Iraq, and Russia's new draconian law on…

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…

Options for Resolution of the Conflict in Abkhazia

Current prospects for resolving the conflict in the Abkhazia region of Georgia are poor. Framework agreements have been reached, but these merely paper over differences on the central issues at…

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…

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…

The Emerging Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership and Eurasian Security

The evolution of Sino-Soviet/Russian relations from an antagonistic militarized stand-off in the early 1980s to a nascent partnership today is an important development in a changing Northeast Asian security environment.…

US Policy and Russia’s Economic Plight: Lessons from the Meltdown

This policy memo discusses economic reform in Russia and the role of the US government between 1992 and 1998. It begins by reviewing the general strategy of shock therapy in…

The Next Step in Democracy Assistance to Russia: Targeting Military Reform

If American policymakers want to help ensure a democratic future for Eastern Europe, then they should focus on ensuring a democratic future for Russia. If American policymakers see the condition…

Nuclear Weapons and Russia’s Economic Crisis

The recent announcement by vice-premier Yuri Masliukov that Russia would produce 30-40 Topol-M (SS-27) single-warhead ICBMs annually put the finishing touches on Russia's defense policy under the conditions of economic…

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