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Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where ""misfit"" ideas--ones that severely challenged th

Strobe Talbott's memoirs provide a richly detailed account of the US-Russia relationship in the 1990s. They are an insider's chronicle of critical (& often overlooked) successes mixed with deeply regrettable lost chances. 1 Photograph. Adapted from the source document.

Describes the main Western nongovernmental organizations that help groups of Russian activists build institutions associated with democracy, their impact on political parties, elections, and election monitoring, and how the US government, Russian leaders, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have limited the impact; 1995-2000.

Discusses the initiatives of Western nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the development of democratic institutions in post-communist Eastern European and Central Asian countries; based on the Columbia Study conducted over a three-year period in the 1990s at Columbia University. Critical of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for having spent most of its Freedom Suport Act budget in Russia, 1992-96, on market reform, sometimes allocating as little as 6% for support of democracy.