Alexei Arbatov

Carnegie Moscow Center, 2009

This collective volume was produced as part of the Carnegie Moscow Center's Nonproliferation Project and focuses on the important and complex processes that have intruded on nuclear nonproliferation and that are having an increasing impact on prospects for ending the escalation of the nuclear arms race. Issues explored include the development of nuclear energy, the proliferation of nuclear and conventional weapons delivery systems, and the development of strategic systems. The book also proposes recommendations for the parties involved.
The volume is aimed at specialists in international relations and security, nuclear nonproliferation, modern weapons systems and other fields, as well as at the broader public.

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Presentation of the Russian edition at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Enormous societal and political shifts 20 years ago opened prospects to a new, united Europe and put an end to the Cold War and the nuclear standoff. Despite Russia’s enormous role in this peaceful break from totalitarianism, the country’ course in the subsequent two decades was not so straightforward. The soon-to-be-published book project focuses on the results of Russia’s and other post-communist nations’ transformations, comparing Russia’s experience with that of the Eastern European states.
The book’s authors, who include leading Carnegie Moscow Center experts, pose the question: what was the reason behind Russia’s stalled reforms? They lay out the argument that a policy that leads to dismantling of civil liberties in the country and uses strong-arm tactics externally has no prospects. The demolition of the Berlin Wall is no guarantee of success, but democratic transformations are a necessary precondition for the country’s modernization and an authoritative foreign policy of a modern state, as well as its citizens’ well-being.
The Carnegie Moscow Center’s website has published the first articles of the soon-to-be-published collection.

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Carnegie Moscow Center. ROSSPEN, 2009

The broad use of space and the development of space-based and space-targeted weapons raises the prospect of space as a theater of war. A new book edited by Alexei Arbatov and Vladimir Dvorkin “Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, Security” presents an in-depth analysis of the military, political, technical and legal issues involved in preventing weaponization of space.
The collective volume, published by the Carnegie Moscow Center and ROSSPEN, was prepared by Russian researchers under the aegis of the Carnegie Moscow Center's Nonproliferation program.
The book is intended both for specialists, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the military- and space-related issues.

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