The Russian Military in the 21st Century

In April 1997, the U.S. Army War College held its Eighth Annual Strategy Conference, the topic of which was Russia\u27s Future as a World Power. Most of the speakers discussed various aspects of the many crises besetting Russia, and there were differing views on whether Russia would be able to surmount those crises and make the transition to a politically stable democracy and a market economy. Dr. Arbatov provides a very candid appraisal of Russia\u27s current military capabilities. But more importantly, he also outlines a vision for the future of the Russian military. His vision is set within a well-reasoned strategic context and takes into consideration a domestic economic and political environment that includes a free market economy and the further development of constitutional democracy.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/1191/thumbnail.jp

Revising Nuclear Deterrence

CISSM Working PaperThis working paper has resulted in the publication of Beyond Nuclear Deterence: Transforming the U.S. - Russia Equation by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The goal of the present project is to elaborate on proposals that could help promote transformation of the continuing state of mutual nuclear deterrence, foremost between the biggest nuclear powers " Russia and the United States " into a new mode of relationship based on mutual management of nuclear weapon (NW) interaction and impact on international security. Transformation of this kind, beginning in a bilateral format, will at some future point have to embrace multilateral strategic relations among the five principal nuclear powers and new nuclear weapon states (NWS), as well as some aspects of conventional forces development, deployment and employment. Even when dramatic changes take place in the political relations between nuclear states which make them stop seeing each other as adversaries, as with Russia and the United States after the Cold War was over, their armed forces, and foremost nuclear forces, retain the powerful momentum of confrontation and competition. These forces cannot adjust to new cooperative political relations on their own without well designed and consistent political and technical efforts on both sides. Furthermore, newly emerging adversaries, contingencies, and challenges brought about by nuclear proliferation and various conflicts of national interests, may destabilize strategic relations between the former enemies. The result can be increased tensions in their strategic policies with highly detrimental political, military, and legal arms control consequences. Alexei Arbatov Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Prof. Sc. (History); Director of the Center for International Security, Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Russian Academy of Sciences; Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Moscow Center; former (1993-2003) deputy chair of the defense committee of Russian Parliament (State Duma), former member of Soviet delegation at START I talks (1990). Vladimir Dvorkin Major Gen. (Ret.) Strategic Rocket Forces; Dr. Prof. Sc. (Technical Sciences); Senior researcher at the IMEMO Center for International Security; former Director of the 4th Central Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense

The War Against Terrorism and the Transformation of the World Order. ESF Working Paper No. 5, 1 December 2001

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The Way Forward

Presented at the 2010 Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum: Path Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: The Euro-Atlantic Challenge, March 29, 2010, in the GT Hotel BallroomRuntime: 49:10 minutesConclusion of Panel Discussion: Euro-Atlantic Strategic Cooperation: Prospects for Advancing Regional and Global Nuclear Security: Alexei Arbatov, Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – Moscow Center ; Camille Grand, Director, Foundation for Strategic Research ; George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ; Moderator: Under Secretary Michéle Flournoy. Closing Remarks: "The Way Forward" by the Honorable Sam Nunn

Euro-Atlantic Strategic Cooperation: Prospects for Advancing Regional and Global Nuclear Security

Presented at the 2010 Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum: Path Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: The Euro-Atlantic Challenge, March 29, 2010, in the GT Hotel BallroomRuntime: 120:39 minutesIntroduction & Afternoon Speaker: The Honorable Sam Nunn ; Michéle Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense. Panel Discussion (Part 1): Euro-Atlantic Strategic Cooperation: Prospects for Advancing Regional and Global Nuclear Security: Alexei Arbatov, Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – Moscow Center ; Camille Grand, Director, Foundation for Strategic Research ; George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ; Moderator: Under Secretary Michéle Flournoy