Andrew Kuchins' Publications

Books, Monographs and Reports

The Russia Balance Sheet (with Anders Aslund), (Washington: Peterson Institute/CSIS, 2009)

“Turkey’s Evolving Dynamics”, CSIS Report, March 30, 2009

“Chinese Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States”, CSIS Report, March 11, 2009

“Releveraging U.S. Power amid Sino-Russian Reapprochement” CSIS Report, March 10, 2009

"Pressing the "Reset Button" on US-Russia Relations,"  CSIS Report, March 2009. (with Anders Aslund)

"ECONOMIC WHIPLASH IN RUSSIA: An Opportunity to Bolster U.S.-Russian Commercial Ties?"  CSIS Report, February 2009. (with Samuel Charap)

"Commentary: Where Should U.S. Policy toward Russia Go from Here?" CSIS Report, September 8, 2008.

"Russia's 2020 Strategic Economic Goals and the Role of International Integration"  CSIS Report, July 2008. (with Amy Beavin and Anna Bryndza).

"Alternative Futures for Russia " CSIS Report, December 13, 2007

"U.S.-Russian Relations: The Case for an Upgrade," Carnegie Endowment Report, January 2005. (with Vyacheslav Nikonov and Dmitri Trenin)

"An Agenda for Renewal: U.S.-Russian Relations," Carnegie Endowment Report 2000.

Edited Volumes

with Dmitri Trenin, Russia: The Next Yen Years (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004).

with D. Trenin, M. Trudolyubov, N. Yefimova, Rough Crossing: Democracy in Russia (Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004).

Russia after the Fall (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002).

with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Jonathan Haslam, Russia and Japan: An Unresolved Dilemma Between Distant Neighbors (Berkeley: University of California/International and Area Studies, 1993).

Congressional Testimony

“Prospects for Engagement with Russia”, testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 19, 2009

"Russian Democracy and Civil Society: Back to the Future," testimony before the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress, February 8, 2006.

Academic Articles and Memos

'Sino-Russian Myths' Survival. Vol. 51, Issue 5 (October 2009).

'Why Russia Is So Russian' Current History. Vol. 108, Issue 720 (October 2009).

"Europe and Russia: Up from the Abyss?" Current History. Vol. 108, No. 716 (March 2009).

"A Look Ahead to Strategic Relations with Russia" . SIPRI Update: Global Security & Arms (Febrary 2008).

Putinism without Putin? SAISPHERE 2007 (December 2007).

"Russia and China: The Ambivalent Embrace," Current History. Vol. 106, No. 702. (October 2007).

"How Russia is Not Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 121, Issue 2 (Summer 2006).

"Summit with Substance: Creating Payoffs in an Unequal Partnership," Carnegie Policy Brief No. 16, (May 2002).

"Is Russia Rising?" Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 2003).

"Explaining Mr. Putin: Russia's New Nuclear Diplomacy," Arms Control Today, Vol. 12, No. 8 (October 2002).

"Russia's Relations with China and India: Strategic Partnership-Yes, Strategic Alliance-No." Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring 2001). 

"Russia's Strategic Partnership and Global Security." PONARS Policy Memo Series No. 165, (November 2000).

"Russia and Regional Multilateral Security," PONARS Policy Memo Series No. 52, (November 1998).

"The Emerging Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership and Eurasian Security," PONARS Policy Memo Series No. 11, (September 1997).

Articles, Op-Eds, Interviews

View the entire list of Andrew Kuchins' media appearances

"Policy shift raises E.U. hopes on Russia", The Washington Times, September 21, 2009.

"Central Asia’s Northern Exposure", The New York Times, August 4, 2009.

"Russia and the Perils of Personal Diplomacy", The New York Times, July 6, 2009 .

" Obama Should Walk in the Woods with Putin", The Moscow Times, July 3, 2009 .

" New Course for U.S. Foreign Policy?", ABC News, July 3, 2009.

"Formula for Rebooting Commercial Relations," The Moscow Times, February 25, 2009.

"Obama’s opportunity?,"(with Samuel Charap) The New York Times, January 30, 2009.

"Russia’s peace offensive,"(with Samuel Charap) The New York Times, October 13, 2008.

"U.S.-Russia-China Policy Triangle," Council on Foreign Relations, September 29, 2008.

" Time to Treat Russia as a Partner," The Moscow Times, July 3, 2008.

" Tensions in Eastern Europe," American University Radio, July 14, 2008.

"Bush Marks Final Official Visit with Putin,"MSNBC, April 6, 2008.

"Opposing Views: Should NATO Defend Europe Against Russia's Energy Weapons?", RadioFreeEurope/ Radio Liberty, April 2, 2008.

"Economic Risk and the Prospects for Foreign Companies in Russia," co-authored with Amy Beavin, Russia Business Watch, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2007.

"Kremlinology: Unpredictable Russia," Vedomosti, December 24, 2007. (in Russian)

"The Art of Reading Russia's Future," The Moscow Times, December 21, 2007.

"What is Putin's Plan?" Washington Post, September 28, 2007.

"Vlad the Surpriser," Newsday, June 10, 2007.

"A Turning Point in U.S.-Russian Relations?" Vedomosti, November 20, 2006.

"Russian Spin Job?" Kommersant, September 18, 2006.

"After the G-8: The Future Orbit of U.S.-Russian Relations," Heritage.org, September 15, 2006.

"Vladimir the Lucky," Carnegie Endowment Web Commentary, July 25, 2006.

"Letter to Mr. Putin," Kommersant, July 12, 2006.

"Look Who's Back," Wall Street Journal Europe, May 9, 2006.

"Will the Authoritarians of the World Unite?" The Moscow Times, March 28, 2006.

"New Directions in Russian Foreign Policy: Is the East Wind Prevailing over the West Wind in Moscow?" Johnson's Russia List, November 29, 2005.

"From Values to True Dialogue," The Moscow Times, February 22, 2005.

"Europe's Last Geopolitician?" Profil, May 9, 2005.

"Getting Back to Business in Bratislava," The Moscow Times. February 22, 2005.

"We Will Know the Scope of the Discord of the American and Russian Interests in 2005," Profil, January 31, 2005.

"Experts: East-West "Meddling" in Ukraine?" United Press International, December 10, 2004.

"The Cooling Trend Will Continue," The Moscow Times, November 15, 2004.

"Commentary: Russia and Ukraine's Future," United Press International, October 30, 2004.

"U.S. and Russia--What's Next?" Untimely Thoughts, October 16, 2004.

"Two Tragic Septembers," The Moscow Times, September 24, 2004.

"Russia after Beslan," UPI International, September 13, 2004.

"The European Union and NATO Could Turn Chechnya into Kosovo," Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September 7, 2004.

"Russia's Image Problem Begins at Home," The Moscow Times. July 20, 2004.

"Putin's New Team and His Potential Political Legacy," Russian Investment Review. April 26, 2004.

"The West Must Not Turn Its Back on Russia," The Moscow Times, April 21, 2004.

"Presidential Politics: Russians, Republicans, and Democrats," Nezavisimaya Gazeta, February 27, 2004.

"Democracy and War," The Moscow Times. February 10, 2004.

"Russia's New Strategy," Rodnaya Gazeta, December 15, 2003.

"New or Old Russia?" The Moscow Times, December 15, 2003.

"Political Campaign Tactics of New Imperial Strategy?" BBC Russian, December 7, 2003.

"Russia Was Always a Dubious Member of the Club," Johnson's Russia List, November 30, 2003.

"America's Interests in Relations with Russia," Kreml.org, Novembef 19, 2003.

"Putin's Pandora's Box," Johnson's Russia List, November 8, 2003.

"The Threat to Democracy in Russia Remains," Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September 25, 2003.

"The Limits of Power," Nezavisimaya Gazeta, September 15, 2003.

"Arrests Hurt Russia's Image More Than Terrorist Attacks," Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 10, 2003.

"U.S.-Russian Cooperation and the Future of Central Asia," Washington Profile News Agency, December 25, 2002.

"Saddam's Fate: The Main Issue for Putin and Bush," Nezavisimaya Gazeta, November 22, 2002.

"Building a Real U.S.-Russian Partnership," Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 2002.

"Russia, China, and What's Really on the Table," The Moscow Times, August 3, 2001.

"Little Realism for the Realists," Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2001.

"Russia's Insecurity Complex," Washington Post, August 21, 2000.

Book Reviews

Review of “Bobo Lo. Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics. Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 277 p.” Pro et Contra Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2. March-April 2009. Carnegie Moscow Center.

Review of Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation, "Etat Terrible," National Interest Online, August 29, 2007.

Review of Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation, (in Russian) Pro et Contra, Vol. 11, No. 3 (May-June 2007).

Review of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising, "Russia in the Age of Putin," SAIS Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter-Spring 2006). pp. 193-196.

Review of Richard Rose and Neil Munro, Elections Without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin. in Slavic Review, Vol. 63 Issue 3 (Fall 2004) pp. 668-669.

Review of Clifford Gaddy and Fiona Hill, Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, "The Land that Time Forgot," Survival, Vol. 46 Issue 2 (Summer 2004).

Review of William Zimmerman, The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives 1993-2000. "What Russians Think About Foreign Policy," SAIS Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer-Fall 2003), pp. 209-211.

Review of Elizabeth Wishnick, Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin, "Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin," Demokratizatsiya,  Vol. 11 No. 3 (Summer 2003).

Review of Guoli Liu, States and Markets: Comparing Japan and Russia, Russian Review, Vol. 54 Issue 3 (July 1995), pp. 484.