Carnegie Moscow Center
China and India are poised to join the United States as the world’s largest economies by mid-century. As economic strength is translated into greater power and influence, will a tri-polar global system replace the unipolar status of the United States?
Russia is both a resurgent power on the international stage and a key partner for Europe. However, the country still faces a myriad of social and economic challenges.
With European governments considering defense spending cuts and NATO preparing to implement its new strategic concept, transatlantic security cooperation is in a considerable state of flux.
As protests in Egypt escalate into a full-fledged uprising that threatens to unravel Egypt's existing political order, President Mubarak's announcement that he will not run for president again in September does not seem to be enough to appease the protesters and end the protests.
Russia’s economic fortunes often determine the popularity of its leaders, and the personality of those leaders, in turn, influences the country’s socio-political development.
Protests in Tunisia that pushed President Ben Ali to flee the country have sparked mass protests in the region, spreading to Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen. The protests in Egypt are growing and unlike anything seen in decades. Will Tunisia remain an isolated case or the beginning of a wave of change?
The Russian Duma’s likely ratification of New START Agreement this month will open a new debate over the strategic arms threats and emergent arms control opportunities that might be usefully added to the President's current arms control agenda.
The U.S.-Russia reset can boast impressive accomplishments in the security and economic spheres, but the stability of the relationship remains in doubt as long as the “values gap” between the two strategic partners goes unaddressed.
In the Russian Orthodox Church’s worldview the nation is not paramount, but nationalism nonetheless is a significant side effect of the Church’s activities.
The company chosen to supply India's new medium multi-role aircraft will obtain a long and lucrative association with a rising power and secure a toehold into other parts of India’s rapidly modernizing strategic industries.