Research for Naval Cooperation

CNA conducted a series of seminars with a Russian counterpart institute, The Institute for USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), beginning with an initial visit to Russia in the fall of 1991 and ending with the last seminar in December 2003. Discussed across those years were the strategic nuclear situation and its evolution, the world situation and the two countries' roles in it, and the possibilities of cooperation between the two navies. We involved naval officers from both sides in the discussions and visited each other's naval bases. Unfortunately, the Russian navy faded away across this period as Russia was more preoccupied with creating an economy, a government, and solving other internal problems. This report summarizes the discussions across the years and puts them into a broader historical context of the evolution of Russia as a new nation-state.