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Reducing the Risk of Accidental Launch: Time for a New Approach?

Ten years ago, on January 25, 1995, a sounding rocket launched from a test site in Norway was detected by radars of the Russian early-warning network. The details of what followed have…

Security Sell-Out in the North Caucasus, 2004: How Government Centralization Backfires

With the horrors of the September 2004 school hostage massacre in Beslan (North Ossetia) very much in the Russians’ hearts and minds, the Kremlin announced sweeping reforms to strengthen central…

The Russian-Georgian Crisis and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan

July 23, 2012

In the early fall of 2002, two developments concerning Georgia garnered a great deal of attention. The first was the groundbreaking ceremony for the long-awaited Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which has…

Is Russia Really an Ally?

U.S.-Russian relations have been strengthened considerably over the last year. Two developments led to this improvement: Russian president Vladimir Putin’s support for the United States in the aftermath of the…

The Paradoxes of Kuchma’s Russian Policy

Since 1991, Kyiv has followed what has been termed a multi-vector approach in its foreign policy by trying to play a delicate balancing act between the United States and the European Union,…

Some Parallels Between Islamic Radicals in Russia and the United States

The first suicide bombing in Israel occurred in April 1993, and by September 11, 2001, 63 suicide bombings had taken place there. The attack on the World Trade Center, in which a…

‘A Sense of His Soul’: The Relation between Presidents Putin and Bush

It is an unfortunate truism that relations between the United States and Russia depend a great deal on the interpersona l connection between the two countries. Of course, personalities do not determine…

Putin’s War in Chechnya: Who steers the course?

Each time a proposition is raised to resolve the Chechen conflict through negotiation, the Russian authorities respond with a double-riposte: We do not negotiate with terrorists, and there is nobody…

Putin: A New de Gaulle?

In the weeks leading up to his election as president of Russia in March 2000, journalists asked Vladimir Putin which political leaders he found “most interesting.” They took his first answer, Napoleon…

The Future of U.S.-Russian Nuclear Relations: A Rip Van Winkle Approach?

The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT, or the Treaty of Moscow) signed by U.S. president George W. Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin during their Moscow/St. Petersburg summit in May…

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