Sarah Mendelson's Publications

Books

The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, co-editor John K. Glenn, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Changing Course: Ideas, Politics and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998, series on International History and Politics.

Reports

From Assistance to Engagement: A Model for a New Era in U.S.-Russian Civil Society Relations, CSIS, September 22, 2009.

Violence in the North Caucasus: Summer 2009, CSIS, August 31, 2009.

Violence in the North Caucasus, Interim Report: January 2008 – July 2009, CSIS, August 12, 2009.

U.S.-Russian Relations and the Democracy and Rule of Law Deficit, The Century Foundation, June 2009.

Violence in the North Caucasus: Winter/Spring 2009, CSIS, May 14, 2009.

Violence in the North Caucasus: Fall/Winter 2008, CSIS,  February 3, 2009.

Violence in the North Caucasus: Trends Since 2004, CSIS, November 18, 2008.

Closing Guantanamo: From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint, CSIS Press, September 16, 2008.

Draft Report: Closing Guantanamo: From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint, July 15, 2008.

49 Steps To Improve Human Rights and Security in the North Caucasus, CSIS Press, September 2007.

Cauldron of Terrorism or Bowl of Kasha? What Survey Data Say about the North Caucasus, co-author Theodore P. Gerber, CSIS Press, July 6, 2006.

A Survey of Russian Doctors on HIV/AIDS, co-author Theodore P. Gerber, CSIS Press, January 2006.

Barracks and Brothels: Peacekeepers and Human Trafficking in the Balkans, CSIS Press, February 2005.

Domestic Politics and America's Russia Policy, Report to the Joint Task Force of the Century Foundation and the Stanley Foundation, October 2002.

Journal Articles

“Security through Sociology: The North Caucasus and the Global Counterinsurgency Paradigm,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, September 2009.

"Beyond Guantánamo,"(pdf) Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2009.

“Dusk or Dawn for the Human Rights Movement?" (pdf), The Washington Quarterly, April 2009.

“Us and Them: Anti-American Views of the Putin Generation,” (pdf) co-author Theodore P. Gerber, The Washington Quarterly. Spring 2008.

"Casualty Sensitivity in a Post-Soviet Context: Russian Views of the Second Chechen War, 2001-2004," co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, Political Science Quarterly, Spring 2008.

"Public Experiences of Police Violence and Corruption in Contemporary Russia: A Case of Predatory Policing?"(pdf), co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, Law and Society Review, March 2008.

"Dreaming of a Democratic Russia," The American Scholar, Winter 2008.

"Local Activist Culture and Transnational Diffusion: An Experiment in Social Marketing among Human Rights Groups in Russia,” co-authored with Theodore P. Gerber, Post Soviet Affairs, January-March 2007.

“Anatomy of Ambivalence: The International Community and Human Rights Abuse in the North Caucasus” (pdf), Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 53, No. 6. November/December 2006.

"Failing the Stalin Test: Russians and Their Dictator," co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2006.

“Crisis Among Crises Among Crises: HIV/AIDS in the Eyes of Russian Health Care Experts,” co-authored Theodore P. Gerber, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 52, No. 4, July/August 2005.

“Time to Get off The Putin Path,” Apsenia (Aspen Institute’s Italian Journal of International Affairs), March 2005.

“Soviet Nostalgia: An Impediment to Russian Democratization,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2005.

“The Seven Ingredients: When Democracy Promotion Works,” Harvard International Review, Summer 2004.

“Why Russia’s Unfinished Democracy is Bad for Business,” Russia Business Watch, Summer 2003.

“Russian Public Opinion on Human Rights and the War in Chechnya” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4. October-December 2002.

“Grazhdane Rossii o pravakh cheloveka” (Russians on Human Rights), co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniia: Ekonomicheskie i Sotsial'nye Peremeny, No. 58, March/April 2002.
Republished in Pravozashchitnik.  No.2, April-July 2002.
 
“Russians’ Rights Imperiled: Has Anybody Noticed?” International Security, Vol. 26, No. 4, Spring 2002.

“U.S.-Russian Military Relations: Between Friend and Foe,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2001.

“Unfinished Business: Democracy Assistance and Political Transition in Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 48, No. 3, May/June 2001.

“Democracy Assistance and Russia’s Transition: Between Success and Failure,” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 4, Spring 2001.

“The Putin Path: Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Retreat,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 47, No. 5, September/October 2000.

“Democracy in Russia--A U.S. National Security Issue,” co-author Michael McFaul, Demokratizatsiya, 8, Summer 2000.

"Internal Battles and External Wars: Politics, Learning and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, " World Politics, Vol. 45, April 1993.

CSIS Articles

“Peace in Chechnya?” CSIS, April 16, 2009.

“Critical Questions: Victory Day in Moscow,” CSIS Critical Questions. May 8, 2008.

“Opt Back In To the International System Part I: Counterterrorism” & “Opt Back In To the International System Part II: International Law and Treaties," CSIS’s Smart Power Series, October 2007.

“A New Approach to a New Russia,” memo for the CSIS Smart Power Commission, October 2007.

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memos
“Wanted: A New U.S. Policy On Russia,” PONARS Policy Memo 324, January 2004.

“Up for Grabs: Russia’s Political Trajectory and Stalin’s Legacy,” PONARS Policy Memo 296, November 7, 2003.

“Strong Public Support for Military Reform in Russia,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo 288, June 2003. Available in Russian.

“Young, Educated, Urban, and Anti-American:  Evidence from Survey Data,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo 267, December 2002.

“Russians Support NGOs But Not Parties:  Implications for Donors,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo 256, December 2002.

“The Disconnect in How Russians Think about Human Rights and Chechnya,” PONARS Policy Memo 244, January 2002.

“A Consequence of Media Manipulation,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo, January 2002.

“How Russians Think About Human Rights,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo 221, January 2002.

“How Russians Think About Chechnya,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo 243, January 2002.

“Towards a New U.S. Policy on Chechnya,” PPONARS Policy Memo 204, November 2001.

“Explaining the International Community’s Response to the War in Chechnya,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, PONARS Policy Memo 143, April 2000.

Newspaper Articles and Op-eds

“Grading Obama,” foreignpolicy.com, November 3, 2009.

“The Guantanamo Countdown,” foreignpolicy.com, October 1, 2009.

“A Step Closer to Justice,” Room for Debate, nytimes.com, August 24, 2009.

“(Un)civil Society in the North Caucasus,” foreignpolicy.com, August 12, 2009.

"Guantánamo Drift," foreignpolicy.com, May 2009.

“After Guantánamo: Review, Release, Prosecute and Build Resilience,” Post Global, washingtonpost.com, February 21, 2009.

“How to Close Guantánamo,” co-author Jack Cloonan, Washington Post, November 30, 2008.

"The End of the Post-Soviet Era," The Moscow Times, August 19, 2008.

“The Putin Generation,” (pdf, in German) co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Die Welt, February 17, 2008. (pdf, in English)

“Beyond Blackwater,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2007.

“Young Russia's Enemy No. 1: Anti-Americanism Grows,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Washington Post, August 3, 2007.

"A Hero of Our Time?" The Guardian, April 23, 2007.

“What Will Russia Resemble after Putin?” An online debate with Nikolas Gvosdev, CFR.org, January 29, 2007.

“Human Rights and the Terror Fight,” Think Tank Town, washingtonpost.com, May 11, 2006.

“By the Numbers, the Russian Evolution” (pdf), co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2006.

“The World Fiddles as the North Caucasus Simmers,” co-author Fiona Hill, Financial Times, August 29, 2005.
 
“Les droits de l'homme et la guerre en Tchétchénie” (Human rights and the war in Chechnya), co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Pouvoirs, Paris, No. 112, January 2005.
 
“Putin’s Policies Fail, So Schoolchildren Suffer,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Globe and Mail, September 3, 2004.

“Listen to the Russians,” co-authors Theodore P. Gerber and Grigory Shvedov, Washington Post, August 24, 2004.

“A Canadian solution to a peacekeeping sex scandal” (pdf) Globe and Mail, May 27, 2004.

“Moscow’s Military Malaise,” co-author Theodore P. Gerber, Financial Times, September 11, 2002.

“The Dark Side Is Strong in Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” Globe and Mail, July 20, 2001.

"Next Up for Reform:  Russia's Military," Washington Post, October 22, 1997.

Congressional Testimony

"The Medvedev Thaw: Is It Real? Will It Last?" before the Helsinki Commission, U.S. Congress, June 23, 2009

"The Duma Elections, Politics and Putin: Where is Russia Going?" before the Helsinki Commission, U.S. Congress, December 6, 2007.

“Russia Today: In Transition or Intransigent?” before the Helsinki Commission, U.S. Congress, May 24, 2007.

"Combating Human Trafficking: Achieving Zero-Tolerance," before the House International Relations Committee, U.S. Congress, March 9, 2005.

"Enforcing U.S. Policies Against Trafficking in Persons: How is the U.S. Military Doing?" before the Helsinki Commission and House Armed Services Committee, U.S. Congress, December 15, 2004.

“The Putin Path: Human Rights in Retreat in Russia,” before the Helsinki Commission, U.S. Congress, May 23, 2000.

Book Reviews

“The View From Above: An Insider’s Take on Clinton’s Russia Policy” (A Review Essay of Strobe Talbott’s The Russian Hand) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 4. July/August 2002.

Review of Russia and the West: The 21st Century Security Environment (Eurasia in the 21st Century, Vol. I); Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment (Eurasia in the 21st Century, Vol. II); Russia and East Asia: The 21st Century, ed. Gilbert Rozman, et al., Foreign Affairs, Vol. 79, No. 2, March/April 2000.

Review of Jeffrey Checkel's essay “Ideas and International Political Change:  Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War,” Survival, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 1998.