October 4, 2007 

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September 24, 2007:

Keynote Speaker:
The Hon. Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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September 25, 2007:

Public Luncheon:
Drawing on their diplomatic experience spanning a period of more than four decades, the ambassadors discussed challenges and opportunities that face the two countries in the 21st century. As former senior officials, they brought unique perspective to the diplomacy that brought a peaceful end to the Cold War and saw the development of post-Cold War relations between the United States and Russia.

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New Books
Getting Russia Right
Instead of denouncing Russia as a failed experiment in democracy, the West should adopt smarter diplomacy and take advantage of the country’s capitalist evolution as the groundwork for real democratic development, argues Carnegie Moscow Center Deputy Director Dmitri Trenin in his new book, Getting Russia Right. Trenin contends that despite its evident authoritarianism, which stunts its development, Russia’s modernization represents a “New West”—opting for a capitalist path, which in due course can lay the groundwork for democracy, but rejecting overdependence on Europe or the U.S.

Dmitri V. Trenin is Carnegie Moscow Center deputy director and senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment, and chair of the Moscow Center’s Foreign and Security Policy Program. He has been with the Center since its inception in 1993.

Russia—Lost in Transition
Lilia Shevtsova examines the histories of the Yeltsin and Putin regimes, exploring within the conventional truths and myths about Russia, paradoxes of Russian political development, and Russia’s role in the world. Russia—Lost in Transition reveals a logic of government in Russia—a political regime and type of capitalism formulated over the course of the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies that will continue to dominate Russia’s trajectory in the near-term. Looking forward, Shevtsova speculates about the upcoming elections, the self-perpetuating system in place and how it will dictate the immediate political future, and explores several scenarios for Russia’s development over the next decade.

Lilia Shevtsova co-chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, dividing her time between the Carnegie office in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Moscow Center.


Carnegie Moscow Center
The Carnegie Moscow Center was established in 1993 and accommodates foreign and Russian researchers collaborating with Carnegie’s global network of scholars on a variety of topical areas and policy-relevant projects. Carnegie Moscow Center Associates work independently on their own research in areas covering a broad range of contemporary policy issues—military, political, and economic. 


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The Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Program has been a leader in its field since the end of the Cold War. The senior research team comprises an unparalleled group of experts in the United States and Russia on Eurasian security and development, economic and social issues, governance, and the rule of law, as well as security issues such as strategic nuclear weapons and nuclear nonproliferation. The Program has adapted to changing policy priorities during the region’s dramatic evolution in the past fourteen years—from the collapse of the Soviet Union, through the early phase of post-Communist transitions, into the post-9/11 era, and the current period under President Putin.

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