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Andrew C. Kuchins was the Director of the Russian & Eurasian Program and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Previously, Kuchins was Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Kuchins conducts research and writes widely on Russian foreign and security policy. Kuchins was working on a book entitled China and Russia: Strategic Partners, Allies or Competitors?. Also, he is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Before coming to the Endowment, Kuchins served from 1997 to 2000 as associate director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. From 1993 to 1997, he was a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where he developed and managed a grant-making program to support scientists and researchers in the former Soviet Union. From 1989 to 1993, he was executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet and Post- Soviet Studies.
Foreign Languages: Russian, French
Education: B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Selected Publications: US-Russia Relations: The Case for an Upgrade, co-author with Vyacheslav Nikonov and Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center, 2005); Russia: The Next Ten Years, editor with Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie, 2004); Russia after the Fall, editor (Carnegie, 2002); “Summit with Substance: Creating Payoffs in an Unequal Partnership,” Carnegie Policy Brief No. 16 (2002); Russia and Japan: An Unresolved Dilemma Between Distant Neighbors, coedited with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Jonathan Haslam (UC Regents, 1993)
Cooperation between the United States and Russia has essentially halted, and contact between Washington and Moscow has decreased dramatically. At the same time, the attention each country pays to the other in their respective domestic debates has increased significantly.
Carnegie hosted a seminar on Russia's accession to the WTO, including a presentation by AUSTR Dorothy Dwoskin on the negotiation of the U.S.-Russia bilateral agreement.
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After nearly 13 years of tough negotiations, the United States and the Russian Federation have finally reached a bilateral agreement about Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization. It is the only piece of good news for a relationship that has steadily deteriorated to a point of acrimony and distrust not seen since Mr. Gorbachev came to power more than twenty years ago.
Trying to understand what is really going on in the Kremlin is like peeling an onion : layer by layer by layer with the only certitude that the process will bring you to tears. Kremlin politics can be described as “democracy within one fortress”; it is almost a completely nontransparent ruthless struggle where the stakes are high for the participants as well as those outside the Kremlin walls.
Vladimir Putin is lucky because he happened to become president of Russia amid skyrocketing oil prices. But Vladimir’s good fortune extends beyond his petro-luck.
Muhammad Salih, of the ERK Party of Uzbekistan, spoke about President Islam Karimov's regime and its relations with the West.
Carnegie Senior Associate and Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program Andrew C. Kuchins discussed the U.S.-Russian relations, conditions in Russia and U.S efforts to negotiate a spent nuclear agreement.
A live Webcast press conference with Carnegie experts Andrew C. Kuchins, Mark Medish, Rose Gottemoeller and Dmitri Trenin.
