Carnegie Moscow Center
The Carnegie Endowment and the China Reform Forum held a joint conference in Beijing to discuss the prevention and resolution of conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Leading analysts from both the United States and China discussed the different dimensions of cross-strait dynamics and the views and roles of regional players --most notably, those of the U.S.
Two former U.S. secretaries of defense, a former U.S. secretary of state, and twenty other nonproliferation experts released a statement today urging all governments to recommit themselves to their obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) as a bulwark against proliferation.
Discussion on democracy in the Arab world.
If this experiment with democracy in Kyrgyzstan fails, it will fail due to the lack of preparation by the Kyrgyz elite, rather than the immaturity of the Kyrgyz population. The close knit Kyrgyz community facilitated revolutionary events. The smallness and closeness of the elite allowed the population to hold its leader responsible and played a key role in bringing down President Akaev.
Lilia Shevtsova on current state of Russian domestic politics and launches revised edition of Putin's Russia.
Panel discussion on the challenges posed by Iran's nuclear program featuring Carnegie's George Perkovich.
Deputy Chief of Presidential Administration of the Kyrgyz Republic, Alikbek Jekshenkulov, spoke on the Kyrgz Republic's recent elections.
The Carnegie China Program held a luncheon seminar during which Professor Gu Xiaorong and Professor Zhang Guoyan, both of the Institute of Law at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), presented findings from a joint Carnegie-SASS research project.
Panel discussion and launch of the final report detailing a new international nuclear non-proliferation regime.
The Ukrainian Orange Revolution has marked a new phase in Russia’s geopolitical retrenchment, which started after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine has finally elected a democratic regime and a Western/EU-oriented foreign policy. Russia has suffered a major blow, and the system of alliances led by the EU and the U.S. are now the natural point of attraction for many of the New States.