Carnegie Moscow Center
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.
On October 31, 2011, the world population reached 7 billion. However, for most of the post-Soviet nations, population levels have been declining.
NATO is facing a number of serious challenges from the current fiscal and security environment and the successful realization of the alliance’s security responsibilities requires dependable partners that more equitably share the ensuing burden.
The Carnegie Endowment hosted a special taping of the Charlie Rose Show, on the situation twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union.
Since 2002, when the Justice and Development Party came to power in Turkey, domestic and international observers have found the party’s policies ambiguous at best, and they have questioned the country’s development path and the direction of Turkey’s foreign policy.
Dialogue, education, and an accepted role for religion in society are critical to countering the possible threat that religious radicalization could pose to state security in Central Asia.
There is an overall lack of structure in the movements that made up the Arab Spring, or the “Islamic Spring,” but Islamist groups are generally better organized than the other opposition groups that made the “Islamic Spring” possible.
Ten years after the beginning of the coalition-led war in Afghanistan, the United States may have to reconsider whether its current strategy is able to achieve its goal of a stable and secure Afghanistan.
Ambassador de Brichambaut, secretary general of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), discussed the organization's activities and challenges over the last six years and reflected on current challenges facing the OSCE and the broader Euro-Atlantic community.
Afghanistan has eclipsed Iraq as the focus of U.S. military efforts, a sign of the country’s importance as well as the urgent need to bring resolution to the conflict.