Imprint:New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1998-
Description180 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:Reference shelf volumes present a collection of writings and speeches contemporary to the topic.
Note:I. CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: The future of Russia / Anatol Lieven -- Russia after Chechnya / Sergei Kovalev -- Is Russia still an enemy? / Richard Pipes -- Shortshighted / Grigory Yavlinsky -- An unhealth Russia / Reuters -- The end of the beginning: the emergence of a new Russia / Strobe Talbott -- II. NATO EXPANSION: Toward a secure Europe / Jane M.O. Sharp -- Helsinki illustions -- NATO expansion: beginning the process of advice and consent / Madeleine K. Albright -- The NATO mistake / Jonathan Dean -- The NATO debate begins, badly -- III. HOW VIABLE ARE THE 'NEW' STATES? Tinderbox / Paul Klebnikov -- Ukraine: Europe's linchpin / John Edwin Mroz, Oleksandr Pavliuk -- Belarus in winter / Radek Sikorski -- Imperial understretch: Belarus's union with Russia / Ustina Markus -- The transition from Communism to capitalism in East Germany / Rüdiger Pohl -- Getting Kazak oil to market / Sander Thoenes, Anthony Robinson -- War refugees trapped by politics of oil / David Filipov -- IV. AID TO RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE: Beware of billionaires bearing gifts / Richard C. Morais -- St. George & the Kremlin -- Aboard the gravy train / Matt Bivens -- Eurasia letter: a Marshall Plan we can afford / Charles Weiss, Jr.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
