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…
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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…
Promoting a Strong Civil Society: US Foreign Assistance and Russian NGOs
In February 1997, President Clinton launched the Partnership for Freedom, a new program of bilateral assistance for democracy promotion in Russia and the other NIS countries. This program asks for…
Why and How the US Should Aid Russia
Since the Russian financial collapse in August 1998, critics of US policy toward Russia from both the right and the left have had a heyday asserting that the Clinton Administration…
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…
The Political Costs of Western Investment in Russian Spin-off Companies
In recent years many American investors have targeted direct investments in Russia toward small start-up companies that are spin-offs from old Soviet enterprises. These investments have been encouraged by several…
Russia In Search of Itself: Nationalism and the Future of the Russian State
Nationalism is an ideology that specifies who are members of a putative "nation," describes the nation's self-image relative to other groups, and advocates political actions congruent with a national mission.…