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Johnson's research and teaching focuses on East Asian foreign policy and China in particular, including work on China's compliance with international regimes and Chinese conflict management behavior...
...president Aslan Mashkadov. Russia insists that Mashkadov curb Islamic guerrilla groups operating in his country, although observers point out that the Chechen president himself has limited control over his own territory. And Russian opposition politicians, mindful of Moscow's 1994-96 debacle in Chechnya, are warning against escalating the conflict. But the recent apartment bombings ? and a videotape released by Russian intelligence showing Chechen commanders torturing and beheading Russian captives ? has fueled public support for retribution, and Putin now faces the delicate challenge of modulating Moscow's response to avoid...
Lungren joins five other fellows at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) who will lead seven-week-long study group sessions on issues ranging from ethnic conflict in Ireland to editorial writing...
...Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding the rebels. But despite the air campaign, Moscow is reluctant to resume the 1994-96 conflict that claimed at least 80,000 lives and muddied the reputation of the once-mighty Russian military. And with good reason: Russia failed to subdue the Chechens last time around, and there's no reason to believe they'd succeed now. But, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, "there...
...Russia relations should be reoriented to focus on security issues like nuclear disarmament rather than political and economic reform; the Administration is already moving in that direction. Although she would halt talk of Russia as a strategic partner, she doesn't seek confrontation. "Sometimes Russia's interests will conflict with ours, and sometimes they will coincide," she says. Nor does she engage in who-lost-Russia attacks. "Russia hasn't been lost...