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The spread of terrorism and subversive activity in the North Caucasus under Vladimir Putin indicate a need for fresh policy thinking; instead, Putin and the bureaucracy have clamped down, blaming the problem on international terrorists and ignoring rampant corruption and disaffection in Russia's border lands.
The US government program to prevent nuclear materials from vanishing from insecure facilities into the hands of terrorists has scored several striking successes but is still far from accomplishing its goals.
A discussion with Robert Amsterdam, lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky of YUKOS.
Early in his tenure as general secretary of the Soviet Communist party, Mikhail Gorbachev took a radical first step toward reversing decades of Soviet isolation from the outside world with his quest for a "common European home."
For the past decade Central Asia has been cast as the site of a new "great game," with the United States vying for influence with Russia and China.
Government officials, nongovernmental researchers and energy industry representatives discussed the future of Russian natural gas on the international market.
The U.S. faces potential risks from the prospects of greater destabilization within Russia, from the possible risks of regime collapse in Uzbekistan and Central Asia more generally, and from the chance that the frozen conflicts in the south Caucasus could “thaw.”
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