Some older articles, interviews and essays:

Russian parliamentary elections 2003: Voice of America "ON THE LINE" commentary

"Bulgaria's Role in Russia's Black Sea Strategy", Western Policy Center conference (Bulgaria in NATO), December 2, 2003

"High Expectations, Realistic Appraisals: the U.S.-Russia Relationship" World Affairs Institute, Pittsburgh, November 20, 2003 (PDF version)


Commentary on developments in Russia following the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky (November 2003)

Interview with CBC Newsworld on developments in Russia following the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on October 31, 2003

Terrorism in Chechnya "On the Line" (Voice of America), June 6, 2003

Mexico and Russia: Mirror Images?" in the fall 2002 issue of Demokratizatsiya

The Morality of Results: The Cyprus and Kosovo Challenges in In the National Interest, December 4, 2002

The Ties that Bind: Russia's South-East European Strategy, Perihelion, November 25, 2002

Pipelines and Grand Strategy, Perihelion, August 21, 2002

Moscow Nights, Eurasian Dreams The National Interest, no. 68

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(With Ray Takeyh) Do Terrorist Networks Need Failed States?" The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2002

"Managing Pluralism" (Winter 2001/02 issue of World Policy Journal) Abstract or Full Text

"The Georgian Gambit?" at National Review Online (March 7, 2002)

Gas, Guns, and Oil: Russia's "Ruble Diplomacy" in the Balkans Strategic Regional Report (May 2002)

Religious Freedom: Russian Constitutional Principles—Historical and Contemporary, in the Brigham Young University Law Review (2001/2)

Excerpt from Tolerance versus Pluralism: The Eurasian Dilemma in Analysis of Current Events, December 2000