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Russian Foreign Policy
Introduction: the guns of August -- Contours of Russian foreign policy -- Bulldogs fighting under the rug: the making of Russian foreign policy -- Resetting expectations: Russia and the United States -- Europe: between integration and confrontation -- Rising China and Russia's Asian vector -- Playing with home field advantage? Russia and its post-Soviet neighbors -- Conclusion: dealing with Russia's foreign policy reawakening.
The Russian Economic Crisis
This US report argues that Russia's economic crisis presents an opportunity to deepen American and European economic ties with Russia and integrate the country more firmly in the international system, something that could, over time, bring Russian and Western interests closer together.
Empires of Eurasia
"Eurasia's major powers - China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey - increasingly intervene across their borders while seeking to pull their smaller neighbors more firmly into their respective orbits. While analysts have focused on the role of leaders like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in explaining this drive to dominate neighbors and pull away from the Western-dominated international system, they have paid less attention to the role of imperial legacies. Jeffrey Mankoff argues that what unites these contemporary Eurasian powers is their status as heirs to vast terrestrial empires, namely the Qing, Safavid, Romanov, and Ottoman dynasties. The collapse of these empires in the early twentie...
The Big Caucasus
Situated astride one of the world's key strategic crossroads, the "Big Caucasus" is increasingly a region in flux. In this report, Jeffrey Mankoff has masterfully analyzed the complex and myriad centrifugal and centripetal forces that drive this region simultaneously toward fragmentation and integration. A central premise of Mankoff's analysis is that both U.S. and Russian influence have declined relatively and that viewing regional developments principally through a lens of Russian-American competition obscures rather than illuminates regional dynamics and results in suboptimal policies. In his conclusion, Mankoff emphasizes that Washington's capacity to resolve existing conflicts depends to a great extent on accentuating the U.S. role as an honest broker rather than a party to one side or the other, notwithstanding the significant domestic political constraints on U.S. policymakers in this regard. At the end of the day, the onus is on political decisions taken by elites in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and various disputed regions who have the most leverage and responsibility for a more decisive direction for the Big Caucasus toward deeper fragmentation or integration.
Conflict in Ukraine
One of The New York Times’ “6 Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” “A short and insightful primer” to the crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean Peninsula and Russia’s relations with the West (New York Review of Books) The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy—building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens to undermine U.S. diplomatic efforts on issues ranging from terrorism to nuclear proliferation. And in the absenc...
Eurasian Energy Security
This Council Special Report explores the challenges faced by consumer and supplier alike in Europe and Eurasia. It looks at Russia's rise as an energy power, analyzing its control of supplies and delivery systems and its investments in energy infrastructure across Europe, as well as questions about the potential of its production. The report also examines Europe's difficulties in forging a common policy on energy supply and recommends a two-pronged strategy of integration and diversification. It urges Europe to integrate both internally -- developing a single EU gas market -- and externally -- tying Russia's energy sector to Europe and its more transparent regulations. It also recommends that Europe seek new sources of energy from both non-Russian suppliers and non-fossil fuels.
The Art of Sanctions
Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behavior of the target. In The Art of Sanctions, Richard Nephew offers a much-needed practical framework for planning and applying sanctions that focuses not just on the initial sanctions strategy but also, crucially, on how to calibrate along the way and how to decide when sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness. Nephew—a leader in the design and implementation of sanctions on Iran—develops guidelines for interpreting targets’ responses to sa...
The United States and Central Asia After 2014
The war in Afghanistan has led the United States and its International Security Assistance Force
How About Never—Is Never Good for You?
Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and soci...
Global Powers in the 21st Century
Table of Contents Introduction Concert or Clash of Global Powers in the 21st Century? Alexander T.J. Lennon Lennon, Alexander T.J. Amanda Kozlowski Kozlowski, Amanda Pt. I Does India Belong? Is India a Major Power? George Perkovich Perkovich, George 3 Balancing Interests and Values: India's Struggle with Democracy Promotion C. Raja Mohan Mohan, C. Raja 22 Building a New Partnership with India Teresita C. Schaffer Schaffer, Teresita C. 43 Is India, or Will It Be, a Responsible International Stakeholder? Xenia Dormandy Dormandy, Xenia 60 Pt. II The Rise of China Why Does China Matter? Robert Sutter Sutter, Robert 79 China's Challenge to Pax Americana Evan A. Feigenbaum Feigenbaum, Evan A. 97 C...
