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Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative

A group of former policymakers, generals, and business leaders from Russia, North America, and Europe chart a roadmap of practical action to move toward an inclusive Euro-Atlantic Security Community.

 

Final Report | Video | Working Group Papers | About EASI

 

Protests in Russia

Nikolay Petrov writes that recent protests have undermined the legitimacy of Russian authorities and significantly weakened Putin's hold on power. Even if the protests were to unexpectedly stop, the process of chipping away at Putin's regime has been set in motion.

 

Russia's Line in the Sand on Syria

Dmitri Trenin explains that Moscow’s position on Syria is primarily shaped by the recent experience of Libya, strong doubts concerning the Syrian opposition, and suspicions about U.S. motives.

 

Trenin | Russia’s Syrian Stance
Riedy | Russia’s UN Veto
 

The Russian Pre-Election State of Affairs

Lilia Shevtsova argues that Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin seem to have staked their futures on Putin’s victory in the first round of the presidential elections.

 

Shevtsova | Russia’s Civilization Model? It’s Autocracy
 

Elections in Kazakhstan

Alexey Malashenko notes that the ruling class emerged victorious from the recent parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, but the overconfidence of Kazakh leaders means that all economic, social, and political issues remain unresolved.

 

Olcott | Kazakhstan’s Political (r)evolution
 

Russia’s Internal Abroad?

Alexey Malashenko writes that the North Caucasus remains economically and politically a part of Russia, but the internal situation there is increasingly regulated by the region’s own local traditions. In civilizational terms, the region is drifting further apart from Russia.

 
 

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Pro et Contra

The quarterly journal Pro et Contra is devoted to topical Russian and international issues. The journal publishes articles by prominent Russian and international experts, political analysts, economists and sociologists.
  • Twenty Years Without Soviet Power
    In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of Soviet communism, the authors of this issue examine aspects of post-Soviet development, including public opinion, the economy, and the state, and how they have evolved over the course of the past twenty years.
  • Post-Soviet Political Systems
    While new nation- and state-building processes in the former Soviet Union draw opportunistically on their Soviet heritage, a new nationalism is bringing the states of the region inexorably further from each other and their shared past.
  • Russia-2020. Part II
    Participants of “Russia-2020” project continue to explore the factors that shape Russia’s development, the various crossroads that lie ahead, and the risks that Russia may face.
  • Russia-2020
    Political analysts from Russia and abroad discuss the outlook for Russia ten years down the road and endeavor to outline the potential for development in social, economic, and political life.
 

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The Arab World's Education Report Card: School Climate and Citizenship Skills

Muhammad Faour
1/2/2012

Absent a good education environment, there is little room for the Arab world’s youth to turn into responsible citizens who can consolidate and stimulate social transformation to bring about more prosperous and free societies.

China-Latin American Relations: The End of the Honeymoon?

Matthew Ferchen
16/1/2012

An increasing trade deficit with China, coupled with Chinese purchases of large tracts of Latin American farmland, could cause strain between China and Latin American nations.

Strategic Europe

Jan Techau
25/1/2012

The obvious and often painful mismatch between aspiration and reality in European foreign policy has plagued discourse on European integration during the last decade.

Concern Elevates That Israel Will Strike Iran

Karim Sadjadpour
8/2/2012

As speculation increases that Iran is inching closer to acquiring nuclear weapons, rhetoric regarding war may just be an effort to strengthen diplomacy.

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