Carnegie Moscow Center
The economic crisis and climate change are having a serious impact on migration flows in Central Asia.
Russia has been in a post-empire state for the last 20 years. There is no way back to an empire now—Russia has passed the point of no return in this respect.
Iraq is facing a new crisis as the government of national unity is under severe strain and sectarian tensions increase.
The nuclear order is under pressure as the distance between nonaligned states and nuclear weapon states grows.
In August 1991 and again in the aftermath of the December 2011 Duma elections, protest movements appeared not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg but across Russia.
No country generates as many different economic forecasts and interpretations than China. Some analysts claim that China is an unstoppable economic power, while others warn that China’s economic growth is unstable, unbalanced, and unsustainable.
Securing nuclear material is one of the biggest problems of contemporary security. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) released the Nuclear Materials Security Index, which measures the nuclear security conditions in 176 countries.
In his new book, David Rothkopf traces the changing relationship between public and private power and looks at the implications of the rise of great private actors and the weakening of many states.
Despite expert warnings, global policymaking communities lack a comprehensive understanding of the changing composition of their oil supplies and their impact on the climate.
The Obama administration faces various challenges and opportunities in the realm of democracy support, ranging from the Middle East and North Africa to Russia, Burma, and beyond.