Publications

Сергей Караганов

Publications

Russia needs to defend its interests with an iron fist

Financial times
March 5, 2014

President Vladimir Putin has been trying to bring together most of the countries of the former Soviet Union in an economic alliance. This would have strengthened the region’s economic competitiveness and helped ward off the kind of instability that bedevilled the Weimar Republic after the dissolution of the German Empire.

Enlightened Conservatism Strategy

Vedomosti
February 28, 2014

There is a way to break the deadlock. Of course, a reasonable economic and fiscal policy is a must, as is the improvement of investment climate and measures to stimulate competition, economic growth, etc.

Giving Russia Back Its Future

Vedomosti
February 26, 2014

The crucial mistake is the lack of public and government attention to man as the principal subject and object of development.

Turning East?

Vedomosti
January 28, 2014

For more than five years, we, together with some colleagues from the Russian expert community, have been actively advocating a turn of the Russian economy towards the Pacific.

A Lop-Sided Power

Russia in global affairs
December 25, 2013

Resume The main reserves for Russia’s foreign policy and its influence in the next decade lie more than ever in internal development. And this is also where the main threats are, fraught with the risk of losing political weight in the international arena and the status of great power.

Europe, Russia and the Battle for Ukraine

Vedomosti
November 12, 2013

I am sure that Brussels’ interest is purely political and psychological. The EU’s international influence has been damaged by the crisis and the mistakes of the 1990s, when Brussels set the unrealistic goal of creating a common foreign and defense policy. All this was to undermine the impact of great powers, while preventing the EU from expanding its international clout.

2015: Global Tendencies and Russian Policies

Russia in global affairs
March 11, 2016

The Russian elite have realized that the country will have to live in a new reality that differs from the past rosy dreams of integration with the West, while preserving its independence and sovereignty. Yet they have not yet used the confrontation and the growth of patriotism for an economic revival.

The Eurasian Promise

Rossiiskaya Gazeta
October 26, 2015

The Eurasian Promise China’s Westward Turn to Benefit Russia The latest meetings of the CIS heads of state and the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, held in Astana on October 16-17, irradiated plans to link the Eurasian Economic Union with the Silk Road Economic Belt and with efforts to develop cooperation in Central Asia, including in the military-political field.

A Eurasian Solution for Europe’s Crises

Project Syndicate
September 17, 2015

MOSCOW – More than 18 months after former President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from power (and into exile), the crisis in Ukraine is at a stalemate. Crimea has been reabsorbed by Russia (in what many consider an annexation); much of eastern Ukraine is held by pro-Russia rebels; and relations between the West and Russia are more tense than at any time.