Russian Politics
International Relations
Institutions
Theories of Revolutions
Transitions to Democracy
Political Economy of Post-Communism
Politics of Southern Africa

2007-present       Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.

2006-present       Deputy Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.
                                (Acting Director, 2007).

2005-present       Director, Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute,
                                 Stanford University.

2003-present       Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
                                Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project.
 
1994-present       Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
                                Director of the Russian Domestic Politics Program. 1994-1995, in residence at                                 the Moscow Carnegie Center.  1998-2001, in residence in Washington.

1995-2003            Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

2001-2005            Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.

1995-2001            Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.

1992-1994            Research Associate, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford     
                                University. Co-Director of program on defense conversion in Russia.

1990-1991            Visiting Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

1990-1991            Visiting Scholar, Moscow State University.

1988-1990            Research Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Class Day Speaker, Stanford University, June 16, 2007.

Georgetown University’s Lepgold Prize for best book in international relations, 2004 (for Power and Purpose, with James Goldgeier), 2005.

Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2005.

Honorable Mention, Vucinich Prize for best book in Slavic Studies (for Russia’s Unfinished Revolution), 2002.

Best Paper, Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) National Convention, 2001.

Russian Politics lecture course (Political Science 121M) selected by students as one of ten best courses at Stanford University, Stanford Review, 1996.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Research grant from the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research (NCEEER), with Timothy Colton and Henry Hale, to conduct survey research in Russia, 2008.

Research Grant, Smith Richardson Foundation, to support collaborative research on the external dimensions of democratic development, 2006-2008.

Research Grant, IRIS Center, University of Maryland, support for project on regime type and economic development, 2005.

Research Grant, Freedom House/Smith Richardson Foundation, to support collaborative research project on the conditions under which autocratic regimes endure and collapse, 2005.

Reagan/Fascell Fellow, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, 2004.

Research Grant, Open Society Institute, for research on civil society in Russia, 2004-2006.

National Science Foundation Grant (with Timothy Colton and Henry Hale) to conduct survey research in Russia, 2003-2004.

Research Grant, Carnegie Corporation of New York, to conduct research on the 2003 parliamentary elections in Russia, 2003.

Research Grant, Bradley Foundation, to conduct research on Russian democracy, 2002 & 2003.

Nominee, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy, Beijing, China, 2003 (postponed because of SARS epidemic).

National Science Foundation Grant (with Timothy Colton) to conduct survey research in Russia, 1999-2000.

Research grant from the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research (NCEEER), with Timothy Colton, to conduct survey research in Russia, 1999-2000.

Grant, Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support my research programs on federalism, political parties, and elections at the Moscow Carnegie Center.

Research Grant, Mott Foundation, (collaborative project in Russia) 1996-2000.

Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos Switzerland, 1997.

Research Grant, Earhart Foundation, 1996.

Research Grant, Eurasia Foundation, 1995-1996.

MacArthur-SSRC Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Peace and Security, (declined financial support but maintained affiliation), 1993-1995.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Title VIII grant from the Department of State, Hoover Institution, 1991-1992.

International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship, Moscow, USSR, 1990-1991.

Ford Foundation Fellow in Combined Soviet/East European and International Security Studies, 1989-1990.

Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, summer 1989. 

Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 1988-1989.

Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University, 1986-1988.

Research grants from the Gilbert Murray Trust, Beit Trust, the Cyril Foster Fund, St. John's College, Oxford, and the Committee for Graduate Studies, Oxford, 1987-1988.

Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS), 1985-1986.

Member, Pi Sigma Alpha political science honor's society and Phi Beta Kappa.

• Board Member: Eurasia Foundation, International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy, Institute of Social and Political Studies (Moscow), Firebird Fund, Center for Civil Society International, Institute for Corporate Governance and Law
• Advisory Board Member, Washington-Profile
• Advisory Council Member, Johnson’s Russia List
• Steering Committee Member, Europe and Eurasia division of Human Rights Watch.
• Advisory Board, United Humanitarian Mission.
• Member, District Eight Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship.
• Member, Selection Committee for fellowships sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace, IREX, and ACTR
• Program Chair, Democratization Section, American Political Science Association, 2003.
• "Russia After the 2000 Presidential Election," testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 12, 2000.
• "What Are Russian Foreign Policy Objectives?" testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, United States Congress, May 12, 1999.
• "Russia's Bumpy Road to Democracy," testimony before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress, July 10, 1996, in Prospects for Democracy in Russia (Washington, DC: GPO, 1996).
• Host/Producer, "Lyudi", news program on Russian Television (RTR).
• Television Commentator: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, BBC, ITN, and Reuters.
• Consultant: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, various government agencies.
• Contributing Editor: Current History
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Democracy, Demokratizatsiya
• Reviewer: American Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, International Organization, International Security, Journal of Democracy, Political Science Quarterly, Slavic Review, and World Politics.
• Member: American Political Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, International Forum for Democratic Studies, Society for Comparative Research, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security

Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Politics in the Middle East
The Purposes of American Power
American Efforts at Promoting Democracy Abroad
Revolutions
Comparative Democratization
The Political Economy of Post-Communism
Russian Politics
Post-Communist Democratization
U.S.-Russian Relations
The International Relations of Eastern Europe
Soviet Foreign Policy
Command Economies
Polish-Jewish Relations
The United Nations in Crisis

CURRENT BOOK PROJECTS

Promoting Democracy. Should We? Can We? (publication date: January 2009).

The External Dimensions of Democratization. (expected completion date: fall 2009).

The Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy in the Postcommunist World. (expected completion date: fall 2009).

BOOKS

Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform (with Nikolai Petrov and Andrei Ryabov), (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004).

Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (with James Goldgeier), (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003). Georgetown University’s Lepgold Prize for best book in international relations, 2004.

Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 (with Timothy Colton), (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003).

Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Revised paperback edition, 2002. Honorable Mention, Vucinich Prize for best book in Slavic Studies, 2002.

Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1997).

Post-Communist Politics: Democratic Prospects in Russia and Eastern Europe, (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic & International Studies, 1993).

with Sergei Markov, The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Political Parties, Programs, and Profiles, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1993).

"Southern African Liberation and Great Power Intervention: Towards a Theory of Revolution in an International Context." Ph.D. dissertation, 1991.

EDITED BOOKS

with Kathryn Stoner-Weiss and Valerie Bunce, Waves and Troughs of Democratization in the Post-communist World (under review).

with Amichai Magen and Tomas Risse, American Versus European Approaches to Democracy Promotion (under review).

with Anders Aslund,  Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic
Breakthrough (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006).

with Kathryn Stoner Weiss, After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). This book includes three chapters written or co-authored by McFaul.

with Andrei Ryabov, and Nikolai Petrov, Rossiiya v izbiratel'nom tsikle: 1999-2000 godov, (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2000).

with Andrei Ryabov, and Nikolai Petrov, Primer on Russia’s 1999 Duma Elections (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999). Also published in Russian.

with Andrei Ryabov, Rossiiskoe Obshchestvo: Stanovlenie Demokraticheskikh Tsennostei? [Russian Society: The Formation of Democratic Values?], (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1999).

with Nikolai Petrov, Politicheskii Al'manakh Rossii 1989-1997 [Political Almanac of Russia, 1989-1997] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1998),  second edition.

with Andrei Ryabov, Formirovanie Partiino-Politicheskoi Systemi v Rossii [Formation of the Political Party System in Russia] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1997).

with Nikolai Petrov, Parliamentskie Vybory 1995 Goda v Rossii [1995 Parliamentary Elections in Russia] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1996).

with Nikolai Petrov, Previewing Russia's 1995 Parliamentary Elections, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 1995).

with Tova Perlmutter, eds., Privatization, Conversion, and Enterprise Reform in Russia, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

with Sergei Bogolyubov, Pravo i Mnogopartiinost' v Rossii [Law and Multipartyism in Russia], (Moskva: Yustitsinform, 1994).

ARTICLES, SHORT-MONOGRAPHS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Over-Managed Democracy in Russia,” with Masha Lipman, Nikolai Petrov, and Andrey Ryabov, unpublished manuscript.

“Shared Ideal, Divergent Strategies? Explaining Similarities and Differences in EU and US Democracy Promotion”, (with Amichai Magen), unpublished manuscript.

“External Sources and Consequences of Russia’s ‘Sovereign Democracy’,” with Regine Spector,  in Peter Burnell and Richard Youngs, eds.,  New Challenges to Democratization? (forthcoming).

“American Efforts at Promoting Regime Change in the Soviet Union and Russia: Lessons Learned,” with James Goldgeier, unpublished manuscript.

Strategic Leadership” Framework for a 21st Century National Security, with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bruce Jentlesen, Ivo Daalder, Anthony Blinken, Kurt Campbell, James O’Brien, Gale Smith, and James Steinberg, (Washington: Center for a New American Security, 2008).

New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance in the 21st Century , multiple authors headed by Stephen Radelet and Gayle Smith, (Washington: Center for Global Development, 2008).
 
“Morocco’s Elections: The Limits of Limited Reforms,” (with Tamara Cofman Wittes) Journal of Democracy, Vol. 19 No. 1 (January 2008) pp. 19-33.

“The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin’s Crackdown Hurt Russia,” with Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Winter 2007) pp. 68-84.

“Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?” with Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 23-45. Reprinted in Derek Chollet, Tod Lindberg, and David Shorr, eds., Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide: Liberals and Conservatives Find Common Ground on 10 Key Global Challengers (New York: Routeledge, 2007) pp. 147-168.

“Ukraine Imports Democracy: External Influences on the Orange Revolution,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2007) pp. 45-83.

“The Promise of Democracy Promotion,” in Morton Halperin, Jeffrey Laurenti, Peter Rundlet, and Spencer Boyer, eds., Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century, (New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2007)  pp. 209-234.
 
“Russian Liberalism in Retreat,” in Wojiech Kononczuk, ed., Putin’s Empire (Warsaw, Stefan Batory Foundation, 2007) pp. 43-54.

“Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia, (with Rui de Figueredo and Barry Weingast), Publius: A Journal of Federalism, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 160-189.

“Liberal Is as Liberal Does,” The American Interest, Vol. 2, No.4, (March/April 2007) pp. 83-89.

“A Win-Win Strategy for Dealing with Iran,” (with Abbas Milani and Larry Diamond) The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 121-138.  Reprinted in Alexander Lennon, The Epicenter of Crisis: The New Middle East (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008), pp. 185-206.

“The Russian Federation,” in Ronald Suny, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. III, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 352-382 .

“The Missing Variable: The ‘International System’ as the Link between Third and Fourth Wave Models of Democratization,” CDDRL Working Paper, No. 58 (Stanford: May 2006).

“Sovereign Democracy and the Shrinking Political Space,” Russia Business Watch, Vol. 14, No 2 (April-June 2006) pp. 9,10, 36.

“Political Transitions: Democracy and the Former Soviet Union,” Harvard International Review, Vol. 28, No.1 (Spring 2006) pp. 40-45.

“Russian Resilience as a Great Power,” (with Alexandra Vacroux) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January-March 2006) pp. 24-33.

 “Seeding Liberal Democracy,” (with Larry Diamond), in Will Marshall, ed., With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty (New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2006) pp. 49-68.

“Playing for the Long Haul in Iran: A Dual Track Strategy for Arms Control and Democratization (with Abbas Milani and Larry Diamond), Brown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2006), pp. 259-289.

“Engaging Autocratic Allies to Promote Democracy” (with David Adesnik) The Washington Quarterly,  Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 2006), pp. 7-26.

 “Chinese Dreams, Persian Realities,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 4 (October 2005), pp. 74-82.

“What to Do about Russia,” (with James Goldgeier) Policy Review  No. 133 (October-November 2005), pp. 45-62.

“Russia and the West: A Dangerous Drift,” Current History, (October 2005) pp. 307-312.
“Introduction: Was the ‘Orange Revolution’ Really a Revolution?”  in Aslund and McFaul, Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough.

“Ukraine’s Democratic Breakthrough in Comparative Perspective,” in Aslund and McFaul, Revolution in Orange.

“The American Strategy (or Lack Thereof) of Democracy Promotion,” in Magen and McFaul, American versus European Approaches to Democracy Promotion.

“Transitions from Postcommunism,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 16, No.3 (July 2005), pp. 5-19. Expanded version published in Russian as “Paths of Postcommunist Transformation: Comparative Analysis of Democratic Breakthroughs in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine,” in Pro et Contra, No. 2 (29) 2005, pp. 92-107
 
“Russia,” in Sarah Repucci and Christopher Walker, eds., Countries at the Crossroads2005: A Survey of Democratic Governance (New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 465-492.

“Individuals Matter: Yeltsin’s Role in Destroying Communism,” in Condoleezza Rice and Kiron Skinner, eds., Turning Points in the Ending of the Cold War, (Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, 2005).

“A Transatlantic Strategy to Promote Democratic Development in the Broader Middle East,” (with Ronald Asmus, Larry Diamond and Mark Leonard) The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring 2005) pp. 7-21.

“Elections,” in Stephen White, Zvi Gitelman, and Richard Sakwa, eds.,  Developments in Russian Politics, 6th edition, (London: Palgrave/MacMillan Press, 2005), pp. 61-79.

“Democracy Promotion as a World Value” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2004-2005) pp. 147-163.

“Russian Reform in 2005,” (in Chinese) World and China 2005, (Beijing: Caijun Magazine, 2005) pp. 98-99.

“What Democracy Assistance Is and Is Not,” Diplomaatia , No. 16 (January 2005), pp. 14-15.

“Putin and the ‘Delegative Democracy’ Trap: Evidence from Russia’s 2003-04 Elections,” (with Timothy Colton and Henry Hale), Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall 2004), pp. 285-319.

“Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us,” (With Nikolai Petrov) Journal of Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 3 (July 2004), pp. 20-31.

“The Evolving Social Science of Postcommunism,” (with Kathryn Stoner-Wiess), in Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner Weiss, eds.  After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 1-20.

“Russians as Joiners: Realists and Liberal Conceptions of Postcommunist Europe,” (with James Goldgeier) in  McFaul and Stoner-Weiss, eds.  After the Collapse of Communism, pp. 232-256.

“Putin and Democratization” (with Timothy Colton) in Dale Herspring, ed., The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), second edition, pp. 13-30.

“Putin and the Media” (with Masha Lipman) in Dale Herspring, ed., The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004) second edition, pp. 55-74.

“Mezhdu demokratiei i diktaturoi,” [Between Democracy and Dictatorship] in Andrew Kuchins and Dmitri Trenin, eds., Rossiya: blizhaishee desyatiletie,” [Russia: The Last Ten Years] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2004) pp. 44-49.

“Reengaging Russia: A New Agenda,” Current History, (October 2004) pp. 307-313.

“Russian Democracy under Putin,” (with Timothy J. Colton) Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July-August 2003) pp. 12-21.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya (Washington: Twentieth Century Foundation, 2003).

“Generational Change in Russia,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 2003) pp. 64-78.

“The Second Russian Revolution,” Russia Business Watch, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2003), pp. 3-8.

“George W. Bush and Russia,” (with James Goldgeier) Current History, Vol. 101, No. 657 (October 2002), pp. 313-324. Reprinted in Helen Purkitt, ed., World Politics 03/04 (Guildlford, Conn.: McGraw Hill/Duskin, 2003).

“Are Russians Undemocratic?” (with Timothy Colton) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 2 (April-June 2002), pp. 91-121. Published in Russian as Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya i sotsial’nye peremeny, No. 54 (54), July-August 2001, pp. 13-26.

“Russian Civil Society,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 109-116.

"The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World," World Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (January 2002) pp. 212-244. Expanded and reprinted in McFaul and Stoner- Weiss, eds.  After the Collapse of Communism, pp. 58-96.

“The Liberty Doctrine: Reclaiming the Purpose of American Power,” Policy Review, No. 112  (April/May 2002) pp. 3-24.  Republished in Glenn Hastedt, ed., American Foreign Policy 03/04 Guildlford, Conn.: McGraw Hill/Duskin, 2003) pp. 24-33.

“Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: A Mixed Record, an Uncertain Future,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 4 (October 2001) pp. 87-94.  Republished in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy after Communism, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), pp. 262-270.

“Evaluating Yeltsin and his Revolution,” in Andrew Kuchins, ed., Russia after the Fall (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002) pp. 21-38.

"Explaining Party Emergence and Non-Emergence in Post-Communist Russia: Institutions, Agents, and Chance," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 34, No. 10 (December 2001), pp. 1159-1187.

“’Managed Democracy’ in Russia: Putin and the Press (with Masha Lipman) Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 2001) pp. 117-128.

"The Liberal Core and Realist Periphery in Europe," (with James Goldgeier), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2001) pp. 1-26.

“Russian Electoral Trends,” in Zoltan Borany, ed., Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 19-63.

"The Sovereignty 'Script': The Red Book for Russia's Revolutionaries," in Stephen Krasner, ed., Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities,(New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 194-223.

“America’s Real Russian Allies,” (with Timothy Colton) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 6 (November/December 2001), pp. 1-13.

“Preventive Defense in Central Asia,” (with Linda McGinnis) National Security Studies Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Autumn 2001), pp. 123-130.

“Realistic Engagement: A New Approach to American-Russian Relations,” Current History, Vol. 100, No. 648 (October 2001) pp. 313-322.

“Can Russians Be Democrats and Capitalists at the Same Time?” Russia Business Watch, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 2001) pp. 3-7.

“Between Two Extremes” (U.S.-Russian relations) Northwestern Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3 (Summer 2001) pp. 33-44.

"Reinventing Russia's Party of Power: "Unity and the 1999 Duma Election," (with Timothy Colton) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer 2000) pp. 201-224.

"Russia Under Putin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2000) 19-33. Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., The Global Diversity of Democracy. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001); and Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy after Communism, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), pp. 179-193.

“Authoritarian and Democratic Responses to Financial Meltdown in Russia,” Problems of Post-Communism, July/August 1999, pp. 22-32.
 
"Lessons from Russia's Protracted Transition from Communist Rule,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 114, No. 1 (Spring 1999) pp. 103-130. Reprinted in Demetrios James Carley, ed., Democracy at Home and Abroad, (New York: Academy of Politics Science, 2000).

"Realistic Engagement" and "Democracy Assistance," both in Tom Carothers et. al., A New Agenda in U.S.-Russian Relations (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).

"Far East Challenges to Russian Federalism: Myths and Realities," in Sherman Garnett, Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russian-Chinese Relations in a Changing Asia, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000) pp. 313-346.

"The Power of Putin," Current History (October 2000) pp. 307-314.

"Russian Democracy -- A U.S. National Security Interest," (with Sarah Mendelson) Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2000) pp. 330-353.

"Yeltsin's Legacy," The Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2000) pp. 42-58.

“Russia’s 1999 Parliamentary Elections: Party Consolidation and Fragmentation,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 2000) pp. 5-23.

“Russia's Stalled Democracy,” Special Feature, The World and I (March 2000) pp. 16-29.

“Nobody Lost Russia,” Blueprint (Winter 2000) pp. 44-47.

“Russia Democracy: Still Not a Lost Cause, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 161-172.

“Getting Russia Right,” Foreign Policy (Winter 1999-2000) pp. 58-73.

“What Went Wrong in Russia? The Perils of a Protracted Transition,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 1999) pp. 4-18. Reprinted in Russian as “Opasnosti Zatyanyvshegosya Perekhodnogo Perioda,” Pro et Contra, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1999) pp. 175-190.

“Institutional Design, Uncertainty, and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases from Russia," Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 1999) pp. 27-52.

“Reform during Revolution,” forward to Yegor Gaidar, Days: Tragedies and Triumphs, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999) pp. ix-xix.

“The Political Economy of Social Policy Reform in Russia: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests,” in Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Mitchell Ornstein, and Linda Cook, eds., Left Parties and Social Policy in Post-Communist Europe, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999) pp. 207-234.

"The Changing Function of Elections in Russian Politics,” (with Nikolai Petrov) in Anders Aslund and Martha Olcott, eds., Russia After Communism, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999) pp. 27-60.

“Russia’s Many Foreign Policies,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 393-412.

“Foreign Policy in Russia after the Kosovo Crisis,” Oxford International Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 1999) pp. 15-25.

"Russia's "Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation," Part II, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer 1998), pp. 219-236.

"Russia's "Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation," Part I, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 25-33.

"The Precarious Peace: Domestic Politics in the Making of Russian Foreign Policy," International Security, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 5-35.

"Russia's Choice: The Perils of Revolutionary Democracy," in Timothy Colton and Jerry Hough, eds., Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Elections of 1993, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998) pp. 115-140.

“Russia’s Summer of Discontent,” Current History (October 1998) pp. 307-312.

"Refocusing American Policy towards Russia: Theory and Practice," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 1998) pp. 326-346.

"Russian Electoral Politics after Transition: Regional and National Assessments," (with Nikolai Petrov), Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, Vol. 38, No. 9 (November 1997), pp. 507-549.

"Russia" in Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1995-1996 (New York: Transaction Book, 1997), pp. 14-25.

"American Policy Towards Russia: Framework for Analysis and Guide to Action," in The United States and Russia into the 21st Century (Carlisle, PA: United States Army War College, 1997), pp. 39-70.

"Russian Economic Interest Groups: Winners and Losers in the Politics of Economic Reform" in David Bernstein, ed., Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1997), pp. 219-234.

"Russia's Rough Ride," in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp. 64-94.

"Democracy Unfolds in Russia" Current History, Vol. 96, No. 612 (October 1997) pp. 319-325. Reprinted in Christian Soe, ed., Comparative Politics 1998/99, (Guilford: CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1998).

"Russia: Transition without Consolidation," Freedom Review, Vol. 28, No.1 (January 1997), pp. 38-57.

"Russia's 1996 Presidential Elections," Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 4, (October-December 1996), pp. 318-350.

Russia Between Elections: What the 1995 Parliamentary Elections Really Mean, (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1996).

"The Allocation of Property Rights in Russia: The First Round," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 1996), pp. 1-22.

"Russia Between Elections: The Vanishing Center," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 2, (April 1996), pp. 90-104.

"Revolutionary Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Defining a Post-Communist Research Agenda," in David Holloway and Norman Naimark, eds., Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 167-196.

"State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia," World Politics, Vol. 47, No. 2, (January 1995), pp. 210-243. Reprinted in Vincent Wright and Luisa Perrotti, eds. Privatization and Public Policy (London: Edward Elgar, 2000).

"Revolutionary Ideas, State Interests, and Russian Foreign Policy," in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), pp. 27-52.
 
"Rossiiskii Elektorat v 1993: Motivatsiya Vybora," [Russian Electorate in 1993: Electoral Motivations], (with Vladimir Bokser and Vasilii Ostashev) in Analiz Elektorata Politicheskikh Sil Rossii, (Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center, 1995), pp. 92-110.

"Demilitarization and Defense Conversion," (with David Holloway) in Gail Lapidus, ed., The New Russia, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 193-222.

"Russian Politics After Chechnya," Foreign Policy, No. 99 (Summer 1995), pp. 149-165.

"Why Russia's Politics Matter," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January/February 1995), pp. 87-99.

"Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Explaining the Vote," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 5, No. 2, (April 1994).

"Osmyslenie Parliamenskikh Vyborov 1993 g. v Rossii," [Explaining the 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Russia], Part Two, Polis, Vol. 23, No. 6, (1994), pp. 179-185.

"Osmyslenie Parliamenskikh Vyborov 1993 g. v Rossii," [Explaining the 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Russia], Part One, Polis, Vol. 23, No. 5, (1994), pp. 124-139.

Understanding Russia's 1993 Parliamentary Elections: Implications for American Foreign Policy, Essays in Public Policy, (Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, 1994).

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