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May 2, 2007
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Goodbye, Yeltsin
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The passing of Boris Yeltsin last week renewed debates about his tenure as Russia's first post-Soviet leader and the impact that his presidency — for better or worse — continues to have on Russia today. Writing in Foreign Affairs over a decade ago, Russia expert Stephen Sestanovich argued that Yeltsin had made headway in securing Russia against the three challenges that threatened its survival as a democratic republic: the military and the KGB, the old regime's all-powerful managers of the economy, and ultranationalism. In a new exclusive postscript, Sestanovich now concludes that history's judgment of Yeltsin will ultimately depend on the Russian people's ability to finish what he had imperfectly begun.
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World Bank Woes
April 18, 2007
Paul Wolfowitz's current travails are hardly the only difficulties he has had to face since becoming president of the World Bank in March 2005. . . . Read more
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Public to Bush: Enough Already
April 4, 2007
Public anguish over Iraq is spilling into other areas of U.S. foreign policy, according to the latest results from the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index. . . . Read more
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The Hill is Alive With the Sound of Hearings
March 21, 2007
As the Democrats approach their 100th day in control of Congress, one thing has already set them apart from their Republican predecessors: the large number of oversight hearings on issues relating to foreign and national security policy. . . . Read more
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Bestsellers
for May 2007
The topselling books on international affairs based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and barnesandnoble.com during April 2007.
- The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
- Second Chance
Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Power, Faith, and Fantasy
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3. College Goes Global by William R. Brody (March/April 2007)
4. How the Street Gangs Took Central America by Ana Arana (May/June 2005)
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