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Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program
The Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Program has, since the end of the Cold War, led the field on Eurasian security, including strategic nuclear weapons and nonproliferation, development, economic and social issues, governance, and the rule of law.
A New Direction for U.S. Policy in the Caspian Region
With Washington’s influence on the Caspian region at its lowest ebb in many years, the Obama administration could reverse this trend with a new approach that accepts Russia’s presence and...
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Thinking Strategically About Russia
U.S.–Russian relations matter again. To succeed where Bush has failed, Obama needs to approach Russia strategically: enhancing cooperation where possible, mitigating conflict where necess...
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Russian-American Security Relations After Georgia
Washington and Moscow’s failure to develop a working relationship could lead to a dangerous crisis—perhaps even a nuclear one. There is an immediate need to grab onto the superstructure o...
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Russia's Strategic Choices
Russia’s recent foreign policy has taken on a combative tone and adopted a revisionist content. Moscow today speaks its mind publicly and freely, and makes clear it no longer wants to be ...
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Getting Russia Right
In Getting Russia Right, Dmitri Trenin sheds new light on our understanding of contemporary Russia, providing Western audiences with an insider’s explanation of how the country has arrive...
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Russian Civil-Military Relations: Putin's Legacy
As Russia reasserts itself on the international stage, the relationship between its civilian and military spheres remains one of the determining factors in the organization of political p...
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Russia—Lost Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
Russian history is first and foremost a history of personalized power. As Russia is in the news, startling the international community with its assertiveness and facing both parliament...
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Putin's Russia (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Combating terrorism, securing weapons of mass destruction, resolving regional conflicts, and stabilizing critical energy resources all hinge on cooperation from Russia and support from it...
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Central Asia's Second Chance
Central Asia's first decade of independence was disappointing for those who envisioned a transition from Soviet republics to independent states with market economies and democratic politi...
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Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality
Contemporary Russia is a country of paradoxes. The post-communist transition has been more painful and protracted than expected, yet the discontent that has become a constant factor in Ru...
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(Re)Engaging Russia in an Era of Uncertainty
The rising costs of economic and political uncertainty in Russia are bringing a new, if tentative, willingness in Moscow to engage in real policy analysis. As it reels from a series of s...
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Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise
At the outset of independence 10 years ago, Kazakhstan's leaders promised that the country's rich natural resources, with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world, would soon b...
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Between Dictatorship Demoracy: Post-Communist Political Reform
For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they still? In the late 1980s, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev launched a series of political reforms that eventually allowed for...
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Russia's Restless Frontier: The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia
The conflict in Chechnya, going through its low- and high-intensity phases, has been doggedly accompanying Russia's development. In the last decade, the Chechen war was widely covered, bo...
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004—the “Orange Revolution”—were seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of demo...
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