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The 2002 Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine: A Prelude to Change or Just Routine Business

On January 1, 2002, Ukraine officially enters a campaign to elect the country’s new legislature, the Verkhovna Rada. The elections that will take place on March 31 are widely viewed…

The U.S. War on Terrorism: How Do Russian Muslims Respond?

In response to the September 11 terror attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., Russia’s Muslim leaders went to great lengths to make a legitimate and valid distinction between…

Uryupinsk: Civil Activism without NGOs The Communist Party as a Civil Society Substitute

From many viewpoints Uryupinsk is the “capital city of Russia’s provinces.” Its name is so widely used in anecdotes about Russian “country-bumpkins” that many Russians believe that it is the…

The Rise and Fall of Federal Reform in Russia

In May 2000, during the very first days of his presidency, Vladimir Putin announced his plans for federal reform as the crucial step toward strengthening the Russian state under the…

Security Cooperation, Russia, and NATO

President Vladimir Putin’s decision to support the U.S. war against terrorism was not quite the complete turnaround in Russian foreign policy that has been portrayed in the Western media. Putin…

U.S. Assistance to Russian NGOs: Securing Global Governance from Below

This memorandum argues that President George W. Bush’s administration should complement its diplomatic rapprochement with Russia with continued, even enhanced, support for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Russian Third Sector.…

The Myth of the New Detente: The Roots of Putin’s Pro-U.S. Policy

Over the past year, Russian president Vladimir Putin initiated a stream of diplomatic overtures to probably the most unresponsive and self-centered of U.S. administrations since the U.S. reemergence from isolationism…

Ethnofederalism: Lessons for Rebuilding Afghanistan, Preserving Pakistan, and Keeping Russia Stable

Ethnofederalism is a federal political system in which territorial governance units are explicitly designated as ethnic homelands. It has proven quite workable in multiethnic states from India to today’s Russia,…

Opposition to the War in Chechnya: Antimilitarist Organizing in Russia

Patriotism, or the devoted love of one’s country, is a phenomenon that can be used in the service of the state. Often, during wartime, the militarized aspect of patriotism is…

Imperial Designs? Citizenship and Russia’s Policies in the Former Soviet Union

The goal of Boris Yeltsin and many of Russia’s liberal democratic reformers was not the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the end of Soviet power. Russia would become the…

Why Peace Operations in Afghanistan Should Heed Soviet Lessons Learned

Common wisdom says that the United States has little to learn from studying the military lessons of Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. U.S. military actions have been designed not to encounter…

What Happens When Russia is the West’s Ally? Some Historical Geopolitical Regularities

The geopolitical history of balance of power suggests that Russia is simply too big to be the West’s ally in normal times. In a pattern that has held for more…

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