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The Kremlin Begs To Differ

Dimitri K. Simes
Paul J. Saunders
| Oct 28, 2009
One doesn’t need to be a Russian domestic radical or a foreign Russophobe to see major flaws in the way Russia is ruled. The population, however, is satisfied with the status quo...for now.

A User's Guide to the Century

Jeffrey D. Sachs | Jul 02, 2008
Jeffrey Sachs explains why the new world order of the twenty-first century is crisis-prone.

Arrested Development

Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr.
Fritz Heimann
| Nov 01, 2007
If developed countries fail to effectively enforce the oecd Anti-Bribery Convention, all anti-corruption efforts in the developing world will suffer.

Lessons from the Bloc

Robert D. English | Sep 04, 2007
What the collapse of the Soviet Union should have taught us about Iraq.

The Political Roots of Poverty: The Economic Logic of Autocracy

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Hilton L. Root
| Jun 01, 2002
Foreign aid misapplied can lengthen the tenure of bad governments. A guide to understanding and engaging difficult development partners.

Culture Matters

Lawrence E. Harrison | Jun 01, 2000
As unacceptable as the notion is to many in a relativistic age, culture is a--if not the--determining factor in the economic progress of countries.
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Commentary

Reality is Contextual: Politics and Economics in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Stephen Boyko | Apr 14, 2004
New books by Nikolas Gvosdev and Irakly Areshidze both view the same phenomenon-the development of two Newly Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet Union

Books & Reviews

Dreaming Europe in a Wide-Awake World

James C. Bennett | Dec 01, 2004
When it comes to Europe's gilded future, success is always just around the corner. Europeanists need to wake up--or risk being left behind by an unlikely coalition.

Revolutionary Nepotism

Steve Sailer | Dec 01, 2003
Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.

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