The Russia-NATO Relationship: Is It Worth Another Try?
Russia and NATO are discussing how to implement the decision taken at the North Atlantic Council (NAC) ministerial meeting on December 6, 2001 to develop new mechanisms in order to…
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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…
U.S.-Russia Cooperation on Afghanistan: An Exception or a Model?
Long before the tragic events of September 2001, Afghanistan presented one of the rare cases of U.S.-Russia active bilateral cooperation on a regional security problem. This intensifying cooperation on Afghanistan…
From Crisis to Transition: The State of Russian Science Based on Focus Groups with Nuclear Physicists
Conventional wisdom holds that Russian science is in a state of crisis. Russian scientists themselves claim that “it would be more accurate to describe its current condition as comatose.” The…
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…
The Soviet Military Experience in Afghanistan: A Precedent of Dubious Relevance
The Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s had been largely forgotten until last month, but it is now back in the news. The attacks on New York and Washington,…
How Russians Think about Human Rights: Recent Survey Data
In 2001, human rights norms appear to be more widespread in Europe than they were 26 years ago at the dawn of the Helsinki process and more widely shared globally…
Policization versus Democratization: 20 Months of Putin’s ‘Federal’ Reform
“A society cannot be called civil if more than half of State servants wear a military uniform,” said Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov at the recent Civic Forum. He explained that…
From Afghanistan To Ingushetia
Recently, I have been receiving many calls from journalists who want me to discuss what lessons, if any, the United States can learn from the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. It…
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…