The US Second Line of Defense: Preventing Nuclear Smuggling Across Russia’s Borders

Preventing the theft of weapons-usable highly enriched uranium and plutonium in Russia is one of the central security concerns facing the US today. The dissolution of the highly centralized USSR…

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…

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…

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…

Foreign Funding of Social Movements in Russia

Over the course of the last several years, the United States government and private US foundations have allocated funding to support the development of a women's movement in Russia. These…

Value Tradeoffs and America’s Caspian Policy: Energy, the Environment, and Sustainable Development

The Caspian Sea embodies one of the crucial tensions of international politics. On one hand, its vast deposits of oil and gas beckon political elites and multinational corporations to compete…

Russia’s Strategic View: Diminished Threats and Diminished Capabilities

A recent Congressional Research Service report states that Russia is a "nuclear superpower" intent on "maintaining rough parity with the United States." In fact, Russians no longer view their state…

The Domestic Politics of NATO Expansion in Russia: Implications for American Foreign Policy

For two years, opponents of NATO expansion both in Russia and the West have warned that the act of inviting former Warsaw Pact countries into the Western alliance would bolster…

Russia’s Relations with NATO: Lessons from the History of the Entente Cordiale

As NATO contemplates the second wave of enlargement, many wonder what the Russian response might be. The experience of 1996-98 might suggest an optimistic scenario: the first wave was met…

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…

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