Aleksashenko, former deputy minister of finance of the Russian Federation and former deputy governor of the Russian central bank, is a scholar-in-residence in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Economic Policy Program.
A former member of the State Duma, Arbatov is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.
Lipman is the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by Carnegie Moscow Center, and also an expert in its Society and Regions Program.
Malashenko, an expert on Russian and Eurasian politics, is also a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Nikolay Petrov is the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. Until 2006, he also worked at the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he started to work in 1982.
Ryabov is a specialist on Russia and Russian politics, and is also the deputy director of the Center for Political Science Programs at the Gorbachev Foundation.
Shevtsova chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program, dividing her time between the Carnegie offices in Washington, D.C. and Moscow.
Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program. As a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, his research focuses on approaches to further integrating India and Pakistan into the nonproliferation regime.
Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the Center since its inception. He chairs the Research Council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
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.
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.
The obvious and often painful mismatch between aspiration and reality in European foreign policy has plagued discourse on European integration during the last decade.
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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