Publications

Сергей Караганов

Publications

The Geopolitically Handicapped

RIA Novosti
August 7, 2006

Reading recent speeches by some U.S. and NATO people, one might wonder how some Western officials who look so civilized on the surface can be deep down as distracted from reality and, in fact, as geopolitically irrational as only the most radical Islamists have appeared to be.

A Russian view: Ukraine should not join NATO

International Herald Tribune
July 20, 2006

More and more, we hear talk about putting Ukraine on a fast track for membership in NATO. Let me be clear: Ukraine, like every other nation, has the right to join any alliance it wishes to.

New nuclear era beset with old threats

RIA Novosti
May 17, 2006

The row over Iran's nuclear program will have major repercussions for Russia. It concerns this country's vital interests, and even its very survival. For all that, this row should not eclipse a more general problem of nuclear weapons proliferation, which has become a reality.

Imperialism of the Fittest

June 28, 2005

By Vladislav Inozemtsev & Sergei Karaganov The international order that had its beginnings with the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)--in short, a world comprised of sovereign territorial states--is coming to a close.

Russia’s migration policy must be made attractive

Rossiiskaya Gazeta
March 30, 2005

The current immigration situation is extremely alarming. During the past year or two, the number of immigrants coming to Russia has not exceeded 200,000 per year, which is 4 to 6 times less than the number needed to compensate for the natural population loss.

Bratislava summit: common interest will triumph

Russia in global affairs
February 18, 2005

Only the lazy do not speak about the growing crisis in Russia-US relationship. The world is waiting for the Bratislava summit between Vladimir Putin and George Bush with mixed feelings dominated by concern. There are objective and subjective reasons for this.

Europe Not Growing Any More

Rossiiskaya Gazeta
December 28, 2011

The “reset” of Russian-U.S. relations has petered out as the new agenda for it never materialized and failed to give it an impulse and relations inevitable started to slide back.

Guest post: Russia needs the Brics

Financial times
December 6, 2011

I am amazed that the country is still alive and functioning after ten years of revolutionary chaos and turmoil in the 1990s. That came after 70 years of communist dictatorship that cost the country tens of millions of lives in the civil war, Gulag camps, artificial famines, forced collectivisation and so on.