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Discussants explore the events that led up to Kyrgyzstan's Tulip Revolution, the extent of corruption present in the Akayev regime, Kyrgyzstan's geopolitical relations with China, and the goals and challenges of the new administration.
The 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference was a disaster. It was a major missed opportunity for the United States to advance either the agenda of the Bush administration or the broader agenda against the spread of nuclear weapons. It was demoralizing for almost all of the top nonproliferation officials from around the world who had gathered for this unique conclave. (Read More)
Russia’s political and economic development after the collapse of the Soviet Union has followed a trend similar to middle income countries like Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, or South Africa. Its future will look similar as well, but it is uncertain if Russia will ever develop into a fully democratized country.
McFaul writes that Bush must praise the region's emerging democracies but spank Putin (in private)
Russian liberals and Western observers have criticized Putin’s comment in his April 25, 2005, address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation "that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." If one accepts the premise that he made this statement from the standpoint of a Russian citizen for a Russian audience, it is hard to disagree with.
Putin did not inherit a consolidated democracy when he became president in 2000, and he has not radically violated the 1993 constitution, cancelled elections, or arrested hundreds of political opponents. However, although the formal institutions of Russian democracy remain in place, the actual democratic content of these institutions has eroded considerably in the last few years.
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