Carnegie Moscow Center
China is emerging from the economic crisis sooner than any other large economy, accelerating its rise as a global leader in the economic and financial arena.
Post-Soviet Russia has witnessed an expansion of religious freedom and a change in the relationship between religious entities and the state. Religious movements that had all but disappeared under the Soviet regime have been experiencing a revival.
This volume analyzes the impact of the current global economic crisis on key Asian states and explores the strategic implications for the United States.
Author Michael Peel offers a 360-degree look at Nigeria, a country he describes as a "brittle motor of 21st-century capitalism." As Peel documents, the root of Nigeria's troubles springs from the ground: oil.
By pursuing its own distinct foreign policy, Russia is isolating itself from the rest of the world. A continuation of these policies will leave Russia with only weak, opportunistic ties to the global community.
This volume examines the Arab world’s major political actors, assesses the weaknesses of secular parties, and evaluates how incumbent regimes have maintained their grip on power in spite of reform-oriented claims.
Each of seven major religions in Eurasia—Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam, Protestantism, Russian Orthodoxy, and paganism—has been forced to develop under the modern pressures of globalization.
The European Union has little direct governmental influence on Russia, but its indirect societal influence is significant. Ultimately, however, while the EU can help efforts to modernize Russia, there is a need for real reform from inside the country itself.
Chinese leaders view the international community as fundamentally defined by antagonism; an outlook that is unlikely to change until and unless the regime changes.
The advocacy group Save Darfur is the newest colonial power in a long history of colonial abuse, according to a new book about the Darfur conflict by Columbia Professor Mahmood Mamdani.