Nov 4, 2009
Human Rights
ReportSep 22, 2009Over two days in July 2009, CSIS, along with colleagues from the Eurasia Foundation and the New Eurasia Foundation, convened a “Civil Society Summit” (CSS) in Moscow that explored how U.S. and Russian civil society ought to engage one another. At the end of the second day, we were joined by President Barack Obama.
ReportSep 21, 2009Nearly two decades after the end of the Cold War, Cuba remains a policy dilemma for the United States. The transition from Fidel Castro to his brother Raúl, which began when Raúl assumed the responsibilities of the presidency of the Council of State on July 31, 2006, as a result of Fidel’s illness, is still ongoing after three years.
- ReportSep 17, 2009
One of the main factors behind the November 2007 decision to award Kazakhstan the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2010 was to recognize the country’s economic achievements and its economic potential.
- NewsletterSep 10, 2009
The government of Iran struggled for decades to fit into the broader Middle East, and it has finally succeeded: it now sees its people principally as a source of instability rather than a source of legitimacy. Thirty years after the Revolution, the Iranian government has concluded it is far better to anesthetize the population than mobilize it.
ReportAug 31, 2009Violence in Russia’s North Caucasus is on the rise. Since January 2004, CSIS staff have been compiling, almost daily, a database that tracks incidents of violence occurring in the region.
- ReportAug 12, 2009
The level of violence in the North Caucasus has spiked in recent months, with July by far the most deadly month in years.
- Critical QuestionsAug 4, 2009
Q1: What is the main purpose of President Clinton’s trip to North Korea?
- ReportJul 7, 2009
On July 6 and 7, 2009 over 75 civil society leaders from Russia and the United States met in Moscow to exchange views and experience on challenges that confront both countries. The conference aimed to move Russian‐American collaboration beyond traditional models of foreign assistance toward more equitable engagement to address issues that have real meaning in the lives of ordinary citizens.
- NewsletterJul 7, 2009
It is easy to be swept up by all of the images coming out of Iran and think that the days of dictatorship—in Iran and the rest of the world—are numbered. Overnight, normally innocuous social networking tools swiftly have turned political, and local events have found international audiences mere instants after they occur.
- NewsletterJul 1, 2009
The decision of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay down their arms and the May 19 death of their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran at the hands of the Sri Lankan army marked the end of 25 years of intermittent bloody conflict that had convulsed the island.
