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The Kremlin Begs To Differ

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.

Arrested Development

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

What the collapse of the Soviet Union should have taught us about Iraq.

The Future of Russian Energy

Russia risks squandering its oil resources.

The Political Roots of Poverty: The Economic Logic of Autocracy

Foreign aid misapplied can lengthen the tenure of bad governments. A guide to understanding and engaging difficult development partners.

Poor Kyrgyzstan

A snapshot of how well-intended but misguided development assistance has failed one of America's new Central Asian partners.

Commentary

Putin's Unsteady Year

It's been exactly one year since his return to the presidency, and he's finding it harder the third time around.

Russia's Murky Energy Future

The Rosneft-BP deal could be a major obstacle to economic modernization and diversity.

BP's Russian Adventure

Tensions in the corrupt Russian energy sector have reached a boiling point.

Books & Reviews

Revolutionary Nepotism

Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.

European Hamiltonians

François Duchêne, Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W.

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May 22, 2013