• Event

Russia As the Chairman of the G-8

• Anders Aslund, Rose Gottemoeller, Michael McFaul, George Perkovich
• September 21, 2005
• Washington, D.C.
• Full Text (PDF)

On September 21, 2005, the Carnegie Endowment hosted a meeting titled "Russia as Chairman of the G-8." Anders Aslund, Director of the Carnegie Russian and Eurasian Program, Rose Gottemoeller, Carnegie Senior Associate, and Michael McFaul, Carnegie Senior Associate, gave presentations. Vice President for Studies George Perkovich moderated the discussion.

• Op-Ed

Putin's Chosen 'Public'

• Maria Lipman
• September 16, 2005
• Washington Post

• Op-Ed

The False Promise of Autocratic Stability

• Michael McFaul
• September 14, 2005
• Hoover Institution Weekly Essays

In my travels to roughly fifty countries, I have been thrown out of only one—Uzbekistan—just a few months after its emergence as an independent state under its first and only president, Islam Karimov. My crime: meeting with human rights activists.

Reaction to Anders Aslund's "Putin's Decline and America's Response"

• Anders Aslund, Oliver Bronsen, Susan Cavan, William Dunkerley, Julian Evans, David Gillespie, Roger Hamburg, Edward Lozansky, Jeremy Putley, Ira Strauss
• August 22, 2005

• Book

Central Asia’s Second Chance

• Martha Brill Olcott
• August 10, 2005
• Washington

Early hopes for a democratic transition in Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union were dashed, but new hope was raised as the global community re-engaged with Central Asia in the wake of 9/11. Martha Brill Olcott explains how the region squandered its "second chance," and what might happen next.

• Event

Azerbaijan's Foreign Policy Agenda

• H.E. Elmar Mamedyarov, Martha Brill Olcott
• August 04, 2005
• Washington, D.C.

The transition from a command to a market economy has not been easy for Azerbaijan, which returned to its 1990 level of economic development just this year. In moving forward the country must take particular care to avoid the Dutch Disease, that is, the overdevelopment of resource-exporting industries and the neglect of the rest of the economy.

• Policy Outlook

Putin's Decline and America's Response

• Anders Aslund
• August 01, 2005
• Carnegie Endowment

• Op-Ed

Preempting Politics In Russia

• Maria Lipman
• July 25, 2005
• Washington Post

• Event

Two Views on Reforming the System: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan

• Alikhan Baimenov, Asim Mollazade
• July 18, 2005
• Washington, D.C.

On Monday, July 18, 2005, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted Dr. Alikhan Baimenov, leader of the AK ZHOL Democratic Party of Kazakhstan, and Dr. Asim Mollazade, M.D., leader of the Democratic Reform Party of Azerbaijan, to discuss their experience with reform in their respective countries. Carnegie Endowment Senior Associate Martha Brill Olcott moderated the session.

• Proliferation Analysis

Nuclear Numbers, Then and Now

• Jane Vaynman, Joshua Williams
• July 14, 2005

Today’s nuclear threats come not only from these massive arsenals, but also from the newest and smallest contributors to "nuclear numbers." The emergence of new nuclear states could set off a "cascade of proliferation" and increase the likelihood of terrorists obtaining nuclear capability.