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The Nanotechnology Revolutions: Looking Beyond the Hype

In April 2007, then Russian president Vladimir Putin extolled nanotechnology research as the key to establishing Russia’s competitive advantage in the high-tech world economy and the next round of the…

Circassian World: Responses to New Challenges

Every tourist who comes to Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, visits a famous gift shop called “Adyga Una” (“The Circassian House”). The owner of this gift shop is a well-known Circassian businessman…

Overcounting Russia’s Muslims: Implications for Security and Society

Russia’s top Muslim officials, Russian prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin, and Russian and American scholars all typically put the number of Muslim believers in Russia at around 15…

Competing Designs for Caspian Energy Highways: Russia and the EU Face Reality Checks

The profound economic disaster that began unfolding in the summer of 2008 has inevitably distorted the energy-related political perspectives developed in the United States, the European Union, and Russia during an…

Prospects for Islamic Radicalism and Violent Extremism in the North Caucasus and Central Asia

The decision by leaders of the armed separatist movement in Chechnya in the late 1990s to embrace a radical Islamic agenda raised concerns that Islamic terrorist groups would seek to…

Russian Naval Deployments: A Return to Global Power Projection or a Temporary Blip?

In the last six months, the Russian Navy has undertaken several high profile deployments. The number and geographic scope of these deployments is unprecedented in the history of the Russian Navy after…

Radicalization of Muslim Immigrants in Europe and Russia: Beyond Terrorism

In the second half of the 1990s, Islamist terrorism emerged as a serious security threat to both Europe and Russia. For Europe, in contrast to the United States, Islamist terrorism…

Staying the Arctic Course: An Offer for Cooperation That Russia Cannot Refuse

Two years after the sensational expedition that planted the Russian flag on the North Pole, and a year after the peak in world oil prices, international attention to Arctic geopolitics…

Why Young People Turn to Islam in the North Caucasus

Next to the apartment building I live in, there is a mosque. Ten years ago, when it was still under construction, I walked past it with a good friend of…

U.S. Russian Strategic Arms Control: Back to the Future?

After a seven year hiatus, the United States and Russia have resumed active dialogue on a new strategic arms reduction agreement to replace the 1991 START I treaty, which is…

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