• Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

  Directors:	Robert H. Legvold Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies

  October 1, 2001 - Present

  The war on terrorism opened a huge opportunity to put Russian-American relations on a different and more constructive long-term footing. This was the subject of the Council on Foreign Relations-Harriman Institute Roundtable in 2001-2002.

  In 2002-2003, the project directors focused the group more closely on an area that seemed poised for new progress under President Putin: Russia's integration into the international economy. Sessions have addressed the question of a Russian-American energy "alliance"; Russian accession to the WTO and relations with the European Union; and the domestic political backdrop of Putin's strategy. A session held in early May assessed the impact of Iraq on Russian-American relations and Russian foreign policy more broadly.

  In 2003-2004, sessions focused on the coming Russian election cycle (Putin faced re-election in March), while using the occasion to examine how Russian developments have and have not met expectations since 1991.

  The roundtable's current focus is on the evolution of Russian domestic politics in the wake of President Putin's re-election, the YUKOS affair, and the higher priority assigned to democratization by the United States.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy: The New Trilateralism

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  December 4, 2006

  Related Project: Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

  Speakers:	Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations
  	Harry Harding, Director of Research and Analysis, Eurasia Group
  	Robert H. Legvold, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
  	Aaron Louis Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

   

  Investing in Putin's Russia

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  April 20, 2005

  Related Project: Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

  Presider:	Stephen Sestanovich
  Speaker:	William Browder, CEO, Hermitage Capital Managment Limited

   

  Putin's Normal Country?

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  March 22, 2004

  Related Project: Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

  Presiders:	Stephen Sestanovich, Columbia University
  	Robert H. Legvold
  Speakers:	Lilia Shevtsova, Carnegie Moscow Center
  	Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University

   

  The Domestic Politics of Russia's Foreign Economic Policy

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  April 14, 2003

  Related Project: Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

  Presider:	Stephen Sestanovich
  Panelist:	Robert H. Legvold, Columbia University

  Contact Rositsa Petrova at 202-518-3421 or rpetrova@cfr.org.

   

  Russia, the WTO, and the EU

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  March 4, 2003

  Related Project: Roundtable on Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

  Presider:	Stephen Sestanovich
  Panelist:	Robert H. Legvold, Columbia University
  Speakers:	Richard E. Ericson, Columbia University
  	Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment

  Contact Rositsa Petrova at 202-518-3421 or rpetrova@cfr.org.

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• The Global Finance Regime

  

  Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.

  New Council Special Reports

  
  

  Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action

  Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.

  The United States in the New Asia

  For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports

  New Books

  Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.

  

  In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.

  In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.

  Complete list of CFR Books

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  James M. Lindsay
  Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
  jlindsay@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
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  jhill@cfr.org

   

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