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Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution in Nagorno-Karabakh

Efforts to resolve ethnic conflict often run aground of the passionate public hostility that underlies them, as the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence illustrates. These popular passions are often the biggest obstacles…

Putin’s Boost-Phase Defense: The Offer That Wasn’t

When President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to work together with the United States on building a missile defense system, it was quite a surprise, to say the…

The Myths About Unilateral Nuclear Arms Reduction

The idea that unilateral reduction of nuclear arms is preferable to the traditional but slower process of negotiated formal arms control treaties that dominated US Soviet/Russian relations for three decades…

Russia’s Strategic Partnerships and Global Security

In the first post-Cold War decade the international system has experienced a period of relative peace among the great powers not seen since the Concert of Europe made its debut…

‘Kosovo Syndrome’ and the Great Nuclear Debate of 2000

In the summer of 2000, a long-simmering conflict within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) burst into the open in a series of leaks to the media that culminated in…

The Politics of Labor Code Reform in Putin’s Russia

The recent announcement of a merger between the pro-Kremlin Unity party and Yuri Luzhkov's Fatherland movement (arguably the foremost anti-Kremlin force in the 1999 Duma campaign) was viewed by knowledgeable…

A Dangerous Balancing Act: Karimov, Putin, and the Taliban

Less than six months ago, several related events in Afghanistan suggested anything but an impending peace agreement among hostile neighbors in this war-torn region. Tensions among the relevant actors in…

Russia’s Belarus Dilemma

Russia’s Belarus dilemma can be formulated as two questions. Should Moscow continue the process of political integration with Belarus–which necessarily entails interaction with and support of the regime of President…

Islam in Russian Society and Politics: Survival and Expansion

In modern times, whether "healthy" or "sick" from an economic and political standpoint, Russia has managed to preoccupy outside observers with the changing condition of its psyche. What was known…

Russian Nationalism and Vladimir Putin’s Russia

Nationalism is a political ideology which holds that: 1) a nation exists with identifiable members and unique collective characteristics; 2) the nation is the chief source of political authority; and…

International Terrorism in the Southern Tier: Perceived or Real Threat to Russia’s Security?

The struggle against international terrorism has become one of Russia's top declared foreign policy priorities. The threat posed to Russia's security by international terrorism is usually described as the consolidation…

Why Soviet History Matters in Russia

When the Soviet Union broke apart nine years ago, many observers hoped that the new Russian government headed by Boris Yeltsin would disclose all the records of the Soviet regime…

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