This project covers a broad range of security issues, from Russia’s relations with its immediate neighbors to its ties in the Middle East, China, Europe, and South Asia to the future direction of US-Russian relations. Current efforts include an in-depth examination of the second Chechen war and its domestic and international implications, and a study of the prospects for security and stability on the fringes of "organized Europe" titled "From the Baltic to Black Sea." A major priority of all the work is identifying and engaging the rising generation of Russian professionals who will shape the contours of the Russian security agenda in the decades ahead.
The Kremlin was able to consolidate its domestic authority and assert itself globally during Russia’s economic boom, but economic, security, and governance crises have shaken Moscow’s confidence ...
Russia’s post-imperial syndrome comes through most clearly in its foreign policy, where the ruling elite focuses on ensuring spheres of influence, parity with the main global power centers and a position of leadership of the non-Western world ...
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen dedicated his first major policy speech, delivered in September 2009 at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, to relations with Russia, laying out an initiative for cooperation between the Alliance and the Russian Federation in the sphere of missile defense ...
Draft Treaty on European Security Proposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitri Trenin believes that the goal set forth in the draft Treaty on European Security, published on November 29, 2009, on the Russian president’s website, is correct and should be commended, yet believes that rather than working on the legal architecture, we need to get to the heart of the matter ...
What is Russia’s position on the Iranian nuclear program? What view does Iran take of U.S. President Barack Obama’s policies? How do political processes in Iran influence its nuclear program? Participants at a roundtable on the Iranian nuclear challenge at the Carnegie Moscow Center on November 23, 2009, including Ariel Levite, nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC), addressed these and other questions ...
Carnegie Moscow Center’s 15th Anniversary Celebrations and Conference: “20 Years Without the Berlin Wall: Breaking Through to Freedom”
On November 18, 2009, the Carnegie Moscow Center held a conference, “20 Years Without the Berlin Wall: Breaking Through to Freedom,” marking the Center’s 15th anniversary ...
On November 17, 2009, the Carnegie Moscow Center hosted Austrian ambassador to Russia Martin Vukovich, who shared his vision of European-Russian relations as well as bilateral Austrian-Russian ties, in the second in its series of Carnegie Diplomatic Evenings marking the Center’s 15th anniversary ...
“The fall of the Berlin Wall not only symbolized the breakthrough to freedom inside societies emerging from Communism, but also the freedom of their choice in foreign policy,” observes Carnegie Moscow Center director Dmitri Trenin ...
A year after Obama’s election, Carnegie Moscow Center director Dmitri Trenin spoke to Foreign Policy about the results of Obama’s presidency so far: "As president-elect, Barack Obama moved to reset the entirety of U ...
U.S.- Russian Relations: How Does Russia See the Reset?
The past year has seen what has been called a reset in U.S.-Russian relations. Until mid-September, some very senior Russians perceived this reset as more rhetoric than reality ...
The book brings together articles written in 2006-2009, almost all of which were written in English for an international audience. In publishing their Russian translations, the author seeks to stimulate the discussion of important questions, to which the answers are not obvious. The articles are arranged retrospectively, starting from the most recent and working back in time, allowing the reader to follow the evolution of the country’s policy.
In "Getting Russia Right", Dmitri Trenin sheds new light on our understanding of contemporary Russia, providing Western audiences with an insider’s explanation of how the country has arrived at its current position and how the United States and Europe can deal with it more productively. Trenin looks beyond Russia’s famous leaders to the economic and cultural spaces outside the Kremlin where promising changes are taking place. Russia is probably not going to join the West, but it is on a path toward becoming Western; capitalist even if not democratic; European in terms of civilization, rather than as part of the EU; and gradually more Western than pro-United States. Insightful and optimistic, Getting Russia Right offers policy makers, students, and stakeholders in the U.S.-Russia relationship an understanding of what Russia is - and is not. Russia will matter in the foreseeable future, and Trenin’s innovative and objective analysis provides an understanding that is crucial to rebuilding relationships among the world’s key players. Read the review published in The Financial Times. Read the review published in Politica Exterior
The brochure is based on the lectures delivered at MGIMO University in April 2005 by Sven Hirdman, Swedish ambassador to Russia from 1994 to 2004. It also contains his broader views on Russia’s role in Europe.
Concept for Reforming Military Education: Organization and Methods (in Russian) This working paper outlines the reasons that necessitate a reform of Russia's system of military educational institutions. The paper includes a forecast for the realization of the federal program entitled "Reform of the Military Education System in Russia Through 2010," as well as recommendations for reforming military education and proposals for respective changes to federal legislation.
“Moscow the Muscular”: The Loneliness of an Aspiring Power Center A new Briefing by Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center director and chair of its Expert Council and its Foreign and Security Policy program, has been published by the Carnegie Moscow Center in both Russian and English. It sums up Russia’s foreign policy over the past year and analyses the prospects for Russian-American and Russian-EU relations. These relations face a deep crisis, Trenin writes: “Never before in contemporary history have Russia’s relations been so tense with Europe, America, and its nearest neighbors (Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia) all at once.” He believes that the reasons for this lie in particular in Russian foreign policy mistakes. Trenin is convinced that current Russia’s movement away from Western countries, which it perceives as failed partners, may reap dangerous consequences for the domestic situation in Russia and for the international relations at large. Trenin criticizes the policies of Western countries towards Russia as well.
December 2008
Thinking Strategically About Russia Dmitri Trenin explains that successive U.S. administrations have forfeited the chance afforded first by the collapse of Communism and again by 9/11 to integrate Russia into the West. Instead, the U.S. has either neglected Russia or openly disregarded its overtures and warnings on a range of regional concerns. But without agreed-upon rules for the relationship, the United States and Russia could risk stumbling into a major conflict. Trenin argues that the incoming U.S. administration needs a comprehensive approach to Russia based on a shared vision of European security. A European security agenda must be built upon resolving outstanding hotspots, including Kosovo and South Ossetia, rebuilding the damaged arms control and nonproliferation frameworks, and crafting a more cooperative approach to Middle Eastern politics and terrorism. According to Trenin, the United States must avoid returning to Cold War-style policies (Georgia is not Germany, and Russia is not the Soviet Union), stop NATO’s eastward expansion (any further move toward Georgia or Ukraine would be dangerous), and leave Russia’s domestic policy to Russia.
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