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The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that India needs to establish a strong domestic space economy in order to weather geopolitical storms.
Konark Bhandari
Book
Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Written by three of the West's leading experts on the former Soviet Union, this book offers a comprehensive assessment of how and why the Commonwealth of Independent States has failed.
Published on Jan 1, 1999
Source: Washington
In the void left by the collapse of the USSR, the CIS was to become a superstructure that would coordinate the foreign and security policies of the member states, develop a common economic space, and provide for an orderly transition from the Soviet Union to the post-Soviet phase. In reality, the CIS has failed. For Russia, the CIS has not served as a vehicle for exerting control over its neighbors. As an organization, the CIS has not succeeded at reintegrating the post-Soviet states. The desire of the new nations to assert themselves as independent entities has proven more powerful than their urge to replace the Soviet Union with a new system of collective government.
Written by three of the West's leading experts on the former Soviet Union, this book offers a comprehensive assessment of how and why the CIS has failed.
Advance Praise
“The authors of this comprehensive study are all well-respected specialists in the field, and they present a broad-ranging picture of the experiences and problems that have arisen in the former Soviet space.”
—Ronald J. Hill, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin
“A unique and useful book.”
—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
About the Authors
Anders Aslund
Former Senior Associate, Director, Russian and Eurasian Program
Martha Brill Olcott
Former Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program and, Co-director, al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia
Olcott is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Prior to her work at the endowment, Olcott served as a special consultant to former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger.
Sherman W. Garnett
Carnegie India does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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