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BRICS Investing in Africa: Geopolitical and Economic Ramifications

March 28, 2013

[There is] a very serious effort to really pull [the BRICS nations] together despite the differences and differing interests. Yes, it will be difficult to put the [new development] bank in place. It will take a lot of time to accumulate the capital.

March 27, 2013, Colin I. Bradford, Bloomberg

Is Russian Peter Being Used to Pay the Cypriot's Paul?

March 21, 2013, Bessma Momani

Dealing With the Real Putin

February 4, 2013, Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

Vladimir Putin as Statist: Restoring the Greatness of Russia

February 1, 2013, Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

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Mr. Putin

Operative in the Kremlin

2013, Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

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Putin's Artful Jurisprudence

January 2, 2013, William Partlett

Central Asian Regional Integration and Cooperation: Reality or Mirage?

October 31, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

Mr. Putin’s "Rule-by-Law State"

June 19, 2012, William Partlett

Can Russia Keep Faking Democracy?

May 22, 2012, William Partlett

Will Vladimir Putin Learn from Russia’s Revolutionary History?

May 14, 2012, William Partlett

The Constitutionality of Vladimir Putin's Third Term as President of Russia

March 9, 2012, William Partlett

“Putinsanity”: The Reelection of Russia’s President Should Be a Wakeup Call to the World

March 5, 2012, Daniel Kaufmann

Vladimir Putin and the Role of Law in Russia

February 28, 2012, William Partlett

Scaling Up Development Interventions: A Review of UNDP's Country Program in Tajikistan

February 21, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

Valery Zorkin's State and Revolution

February 13, 2012, William Partlett

Russia and China Leadership Props Up Syria’s Assad

February 6, 2012, Daniel Kaufmann

A Russian Constitutional Revolution

February 1, 2012, William Partlett

Russia and China Provide Cover for Assad’s Syria

January 31, 2012, Bessma Momani

State Capitalism and Russia's Energy Strategy in the Far East

January 4, 2012, William Partlett

Putin’s Answer to the Protests

December 16, 2011, William Partlett

Central Asia and the Caucasus – At the Crossroads of Eurasia in the 21st Century

June 22, 2011

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Mongolia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

June 16, 2011

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BRICs Must Put up a Fight for IMF Top Job

May 25, 2011, Eswar Prasad

An International Response to Central Asia’s Severe Disaster Risks

April 26, 2011, Johannes F. Linn