Samuel Charap

Alastair Crooke

Sun Chenghao

James Collins

Mario Corti

Igor Chernov

Alan W. Cafruny

Alexei Chikhachev

Jeffrey Collins

Tom Casier

Samuel Charap

United States

Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation. His research interests include the political economy and foreign policies of Russia and the former Soviet states; European and Eurasian regional security; and US-Russia deterrence, strategic stability and arms control.

Samuel Charap was the Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2012–2017). Prior to joining the IISS, he served at the U.S. Department of State as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security and on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff, covering Russia and Eurasia.

Samuel Charap's book on the Ukraine crisis, Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia (co-authored with Timothy J. Colton, 2017). His articles have appeared in The Washington Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Survival, International Herald Tribune, Guardian, Current History and several other newspapers and journals.

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Opinions

Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Conflict Transformation Process Required

Russian aid would be more effective if Abkhazia and South Ossetia weren't cut off from freely trading with the rest of Georgia. This isolation, particularly in the case of South Ossetia, which is connected to the rest of Georgia by 30 roads and hundreds of acres of fields (whereas the Roki Tunnel is the only link to Russia), keeps these breakaway autonomies dependent on Russian assistance.

03.10.2013

Reports

Report: U.S.-Russia Relations in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Transcending the Zero-Sum Game

The report examines how the Russia’s and United States` ties with the countries in post-Soviet Eurasia affect the bilateral relationship. The authors argue that despite the initial successes of the “reset” in Russia-U.S. relations, disputes relating to post-Soviet Eurasia represent “a ‘landmine’ in Russia -U.S. relations that could ‘detonate’ at any time and seriously complicate cooperation on other issues.

19.09.2011

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