Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Follow Carnegie
- Search
- Global Resources
Global Centers
Languages
Edited by Ashley Tellis, with contributions by leading Asia specialists including Frederic Grare of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this book, the seventh in NBR's strategic Asia series, examines the varied political transitions and internal changes occurring in pivotal Asian states and evaluates the impact on Asian foreign policymaking and strategy.
Judging by the visit of Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates to Moscow last week, the United States and Russia are in a race to dismantle the treaty system that has regulated their security relationship for decades. The Russian side eagerly reminded U.S. counterparts of their promise to cease implementing the Conventional Forces in Europe in early December if NATO did not proceed to ratify the adapted CFE Treaty.
With Vladimir Putin's announcement this week that he would head the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in December's parliamentary elections, Russia's new power configuration began to take shape. Ultimately, it will mean the extension of Putin's authority and a triumph of manipulative politics. But as they have demonstrated, the Russian people won't mind.
Public Luncheon at the Carnegie Endowment to celebrate 200 Years of U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations. 
Features event Video
This year marks an important anniversary. In 1807, the Russian Empire and the young American Republic agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Soon after, Russia's first envoy, Alexander Dashkov, arrived in Washington, and John Quincy Adams traveled to St. Petersburg. Since this modest beginning, our relations, at their best and worst, have borne out de Tocqueville's prophecy that America and Russia are "marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe." Today, with the Cold War and immediate post-Soviet transition behind us, we face a new world in which an effective U.S.-Russian relationship is central to addressing many global challenges.
On September 24-25, 2007, Carnegie convened former Russian and American ambassadors to discuss factors that have helped or hindered the bilateral relationship: in short, to examine what has and has not worked.
Keynote address by the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, at the Carnegie celebration of 200 Years of U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations. Features event Video
Experts say that greenhouse-gas trading designed under the Kyoto Protocol was an important first step in reducing emissions increasingly linked to climate change. William Chandler, a senior policy analyst for energy and climate, says trading programs have achieved mixed results. Chandler argues that the United Nations should rethink how it implements its trading program to make it more effective.
Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, sat down for a discussion with Marvin Kalb of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center to mark the publication of his new book, "Getting Russia Right."
Professor Valery Tishkov, director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology and former Russian Minister for Nationalities, gave a presentation on Russia's future as a multi-ethnic nation.
Stay connected to the Global Think Tank with Carnegie's smartphone app for Android and iOS devices
