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US-Russian Relations After Iraq: Report of a CNAC-ISKRAN Mini-Seminar, 3 October 2003
October 1, 2003
Dr. Sergey Rogov, Director of the Institute for USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN) and his colleagues from Moscow met with Mr. Robert Murray, President of CNAC, and others from CNAC and the Washington area. The subject of the mini-seminar was the changed strategic situation following the U.S. conquest and occupation of Iraq in early 2003. The fact that the U.S. would be preoccupied with Iraq for some time to come was noted, but the Russians believed that the opportunities for U.S.-Russian collaboration remained open.
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Russia Between West and East
October 1, 2003
Dr. Nosov provides a concise summary of the pressures that Russia has faced from the east and the south, while reaching out toward Europe-which was in large part "the West" until the post-World War II period and the Cold War. Russians agonize more about their relations with the West and about their own identity than we in "the West" do about whether Russia somehow belongs in the West. After all, Russia never had a nation-state of its own until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and has now had only 12 years to sort out an economy and a political system, while being bogged down in Chechnya.
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Sustaining US-Russian Strategic Relations Report of the 16th CNAC-ISKRAN Seminar, 10 December 2002
May 1, 2003
This is the report of the 16th CNAC-ISKRAN seminar held on 10 December 2002 at CNAC. The seminar was part of a series that dates back to 1991. The agenda covered US-Russia relations, Russia-NATO relations, the situation in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea areas, and convergence of US and Russian interests in the Middle East, particularly on Iraq. Also discussed at the seminar was the current situation with regard to strategic nuclear forces and treaties.
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