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Summer 1991
America's Stakes in the Soviet Union's Future
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue no. 3, volume vol. 30
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The USA should make a massive commitment, of Marshall Plan proportions, to assist the USSR to build a post-communist free market economy. This would act as a powerful inducement for reformers like Gorbachev to abandon all ambition to retain any commitment to communism. The West should (1) provide copious communications infrastructure (2) enlist Soviet help in global security management issues (3) offer massive economic aid "conditional upon political pluralization and a coherent economic program for moving rapidly to a market economy.
June 3, 1991
Would the West's Billions Pay Off?
Journal Article, Los Angeles Times
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
The path of transformation that the leaders of the Soviet Union can choose depends critically on the extent of Western engagement and assistance is critically dependent on the path of reform the Soviet Union is prepared to undertake. Therefore, rather than each side waiting for the other to take the first step, the governments of the Soviet Union and the West should jointly develop a common program of what each would do if the other meets specific conditions.
Fall 1988
Testing Gorbachev
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue no. 1, volume vol. 67
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Criticizes "the failure of American policymakers to develop any concept or strategy for dealing with the 'new-thinking' Soviet leadership". Proposes that "the United States and its allies... reach beyond containment to aggressive engagement of the Soviet Union in ways that encourage Gorbachev's reformist instincts" by means of specific tests of his intentions in the fields of arms control, regional conflict and human rights.
U.S. Security and Military Cooperation with the Countries of the South Caucasus: Successes and Shortcomings
Event Report
On May 13, 2003, Harvard?s Caspian Studies Program and Black Sea Security Program sponsored a panel at Harvard?s Kennedy School on ?U.S. Security and Military Cooperation with the Countries of the South Caucasus: Successes and Shortcomings.?
Chechen Statehood: Is Islam an Obstacle?
Event Report
The Caspian Studies Program recently sponsored a seminar on "Chechen Statehood: Is Islam an Obstacle?" by Nabi Abdullaev, a Dagestani journalist who is Mid-Career Master in Public Administration and Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government for the 2003/2004 academic year.
Policy Brief - State Building in Afghanistan: New Ideas
Event Summary
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: UNDP's Perspective of Development and Integration Challenges
Event Report
On April 23, 2003, Harvard?s Caspian Studies Program, Center for International Development, and Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe co-sponsored an address at Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government by Dr. Kalman Mizsei, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States of the UN Development Program (UNDP), and Assistant Secretary-General of the UN.
From Pipe Dream to Pipeline: The Realization of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline
Event Report
Ambassador Richard Morningstar, a former special advisor to President Clinton on Caspian energy issues who is currently a lecturer at Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government, gave an address at the Kennedy School on May 8, 2003, entitled ?From Pipe Dream to Pipeline: The Realization of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline.?
New Nuclear Nations: Consequences for U.S. Policy
Book
By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Albert Carnesale, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
