U.S. Policy toward Putin's Russia
Time for a Change?
Leon Aron
February 17, 2005
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On February 24, George W. Bush will travel to Slovakia for a summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Although President Bush forged a strong personal relationship with Putin during his first term, many critics now charge that Washington faces an increasingly erratic and unstable counterpart in the Kremlin that is pursuing a range of political, economic, and foreign policies at odds with U.S. interests.

Is it time for the Bush administration to rethink its Russia policy? What should be the strategic priorities of the relationship with Moscow over the next four years, and beyond? Can Washington stand up to Putin's rising authoritarianism, while still cooperating with the Kremlin on counterterrorism, nonproliferation, and energy security?

These and other questions will be the subject of an AEI panel discussion. Participants include Fiona Hill, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; Michael McFaul, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Eugene B. Rumer, senior fellow at National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies; and Nikolai Zlobin, director of Russian and Asian programs at the Center for Defense Information. Leon Aron, director of Russian studies at AEI, will moderate.

Lunch will be served.

About the Author

 

Leon
Aron

  • Leon Aron is Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of three books and over 300 articles and essays. Since 1999, he has written Russian Outlook, a quarterly essay on economic, political, social and cultural aspects of Russia’s post-Soviet transition, published by the Institute. He is the author of the first full-scale scholarly biography of Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life (St. Martin’s Press, 2000); and Russia’s Revolution: Essays 1989-2006 (AEI Press,2007); Roads to the Temple: Memory, Truth, Ideals and Ideas in the Making ofthe Russian Revolution, 1987-1991 (Yale University Press, Spring 2012).


    Dr. Aron earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has taught a graduate seminar at Georgetown University, and was awarded the Peace Fellowship at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has co-edited and contributed the opening chapter to The Emergence of Russian Foreign Policy, published by the U.S. Institute of Peace in 1994 and contributed an opening chapter to The New Russian Foreign Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998).


    Dr. Aron has contributed numerous essays and articles to newspapers andmagazines, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, theWall Street Journal,   Foreign Policy, The NewRepublic, Weekly Standard, Commentary, New York Times Book Review, the TimesLiterary Supplement. A frequent guest of television and radio talkshows, he has commented on Russian affairs for, among others, 60 Minutes,The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, CNN International,C-Span, and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Talk of theNation.”


    From 1990 to 2004, he was a permanent discussant at the Voice of America’s radio and television show Gliadya iz Ameriki (“Looking from America”), which was broadcast to Russia every week.

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    Email: laron@aei.org

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