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| Authors: | Janusz Bugajski Marek Michalewski |
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| Publisher: | A CFR Book |
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Release Date: May 2002
220 pages
ISBN 0876093101
$19.95
If Russia veers toward instability or a more severe dictatorship under President Vladimir Putin, the threat to its neighbors could be severe. Such a scenario would also present serious challenges for European integration and derail the process of Russian rapprochement with the United States.
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Janusz Bugajski is the director of the Eastern Europe Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and runs the South-Central Europe area studies program at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute.
Marek Michalewski is a research associate in the Europe program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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