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What if the major global and regional powers of today s world came
into closer alignment to build a stronger international community
and shared approaches to twenty-first century threats and
challenges? The Stanley Foundation posed that question to
thirty-three top foreign policy analysts in Powers and Principles:
International Leadership in a Shrinking World. Contributing writers
were asked to describe the paths that nine powerful nations, a
regional union of twenty-seven states, and a multinational
corporation could take as constructive stakeholders in a
strengthened rules-based international order. Each chapter is an
assessment of what is politically possible (and impossible) with a
description of the associated pressures and reference to the
country s geostrategic position, economy, society, history, and
political system and culture. To provide a perspective from the
inside and counterweight, each essay is accompanied by a critical
reaction by a prominent analyst commentator from the given country.
Powers and Principles is aimed at both reflective practitioners of
policy and policy-relevant scholars."
What if the major global and regional powers of todayOs world came
into closer alignment to build a stronger international community
and shared approaches to twenty-first century threats and
challenges? The Stanley Foundation posed that question to
thirty-three top foreign policy analysts in Powers and Principles:
International Leadership in a Shrinking World. Contributing writers
were asked to describe the paths that nine powerful nations, a
regional union of twenty-seven states, and a multinational
corporation could take as constructive stakeholders in a
strengthened rules-based international order. Each chapter is an
assessment of what is politically possible (and impossible)_with a
description of the associated pressures and reference to the
countryOs geostrategic position, economy, society, history, and
political system and culture. To provide a perspective from the
inside and counterweight, each essay is accompanied by a critical
reaction by a prominent analyst commentator from the given country.
Powers and Principles is aimed at both reflective practitioners of
policy and policy-relevant scholars.
The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a
collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research
institutions examines Russia after the financial crisis of
2007-2009. In the aftermath of the crisis, what is Russia's current
economic status and role in the world order? Furthermore, how have
recent allegations of corruption within the political system
affected domestic politics as well as the world's perception of
Russia? To answer these questions, this book not only assesses
Russia's international and domestic policy challenges, but also
provides an all-encompassing review of this important country's
foreign and domestic issues. The authors consider foreign policy,
Russia and it neighbors, climate change, Russia's role in the
world, domestic politics, and corruption. As Russia grapples with
the realities of the post-crisis world, this lucid volume looks at
one of the key countries in the world today and offers the keen
insights of some of today's foremost experts.
Russia has been on a wild roller-coaster ride for the past three
decades with no end in sight. Just in the past year as the global
financial crisis deepened, the conventional perception of Russia
has changed from a "safe haven" from the economic tsunami to one of
the hardest hit larger markets in the world. The Russia Balance
Sheet provides comprehensive, balanced, and accurate information on
all key aspects of Russia's developments and their implications for
the United States and other nations. The book argues that, after
the strained Bush-Putin years, the Obama administration must seize
the initiative to define both its policy toward Russia and the
agenda for the many multilateral meetings already planned.The book
offers policy prescriptions for both the United States and Russia.
It is imperative that the Obama administration establish an
explicit Russia policy rather than subordinating it to other issues
in order to enable the administration to make necessary tradeoffs
and follow up on promises. An interagency group for Russia has been
created under the leadership of the National Security Council's
senior director for Russia; this group should determine the Russia
policy and issue an NSC directive. As a new Russia policy is
crafted and an NSC directive on Russia adopted, President Obama
should make a public statement on his Russia policy. Ideally,
President Obama would declare his determination to finally persuade
the US Congress to graduate Russia from the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
to the Trade Act of 1974. As for Russia, it should accede to the
World Trade Organization (WTO) to secure its successful
international integration and an improvement of its legal
standards. The Kremlin needs to introduce transparent procurement
procedures for major investments to relieve infrastructure
bottlenecks. Property rights must be reinforced and
renationalization stopped to ease the problems in banking and
energy production. Finally, with the first full-scale summit
between Presidents Obama and Medvedev to take place in Italy in
July 2009, the authors argue that the two presidents should
recommit to fulfilling the April 2008 Sochi Declaration and to
reestablishing a broader organized cooperation mechanism between
the two countries, like that of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission,
to promote action and accountability.
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