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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.

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 Future of Russian Energy

J. Robinson West | Jun 01, 2005
Russia risks squandering its oil resources.

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.

Poor Kyrgyzstan

Richard A. Slaughter | Jun 01, 2002
A snapshot of how well-intended but misguided development assistance has failed one of America's new Central Asian partners.
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Commentary

Putin's Unsteady Year

Will Pomeranz | May 07, 2013
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

Robert A. Manning | Nov 27, 2012
The Rosneft-BP deal could be a major obstacle to economic modernization and diversity.

BP's Russian Adventure

Ariel Cohen | Jun 11, 2012
Tensions in the corrupt Russian energy sector have reached a boiling point.
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Books & Reviews

Revolutionary Nepotism

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

European Hamiltonians

Max Beloff | Jun 01, 1995
François Duchêne, Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W.

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