People of CDDRL
MagnifyMichael A. McFaul, PhD
Director of CDDRL, Deputy Director of FSI and Stanford Professor of Political Science; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover InstitutionCDDRL
Stanford University
Encina Hall C140
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Research Interests
Democracy promotion, comparative democratization, and the relationship between political and economic reform in the postcommunist world.
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Working Papers
- Importing Revolution: Internal and External Factors in Ukraine's 2004 Democratic Breakthrough
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL Working Papers (2006)
- The Missing Variable: The "International System" as the Link between Third and Fourth Wave Models of Democratization
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL Working Papers (2006) - American Efforts at Promoting Regime Change in the Soviet Union and then Russia: Lessons Learned
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL Working Papers (2005)
Reports
Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy
Michael A. McFaul, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bruce W. Jentleson, Ivo H. Daalder, Antony J. Blinken, Lael Brainard, Kurt M. Campbell, James C. O'Brien, Gayle E. Smith, James B. Steinberg
Center for a New American Security Publications (2008)
New Day New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century
Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond, Steve Radelet, Gayle Smith, Brian Atwood, David Beckmann, Lael Brainard, Francis Fukuyama, George Ingram, Carol Lancaster, Charles MacCormack, Larry Nowels, Ray Offenheiser, Stewart Patrick, William Reese, Sam Worthington
Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (2008)
Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?
Michael A. McFaul, Francis Fukuyama
Washington Quarterly (2007)
Russia: Rebuilding the Iron Curtain
Michael A. McFaul
House Committee on Foreign Relations (2007) - U.S. Policy on Human Rights in Russia
Michael A. McFaul, Mark Medish, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Catherine Fitzpatrick
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2006) - American Interests and UN Reform: Report of the Task Force on the United Nations
Wesley K. Clark, Malcolm Wallop, Eric Schwartz, Frederick Barton, Bathsheba Crocker, Michael A. McFaul, William Nash
U.S. Institute of Peace (2005) - Re-engaging Russia and Russians: A New Agenda for American Foreign Policy
Michael A. McFaul
Center for American Progress (2004) - On the Brink: Weak States and US National Security
Jeremy M. Weinstein, John Edward Porter, Stuart E. Eizenstat, Michael A. McFaul
Center for Global Development (2004) - Democracy and Human Development in the Broader Middle East: A Transatlantic Strategy for Partnership
Urban Ahlin, Menur Akgün, Gustavo de Aristegui, Ronald D. Asmus, Daniel Byman, Larry Diamond, Steven Everts, Ralf Fücks, Iris Glosemeyer, Jana Hybaskova, Thorsten Klassen, Mark Leonard, Michael A. McFaul, Thomas O. Melia, Michael Mertes, Joshua Muravchik, Kenneth M. Pollack, Karen Volker, Jennifer Windsor
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (2004) - Russia's Transition to Democracy and U.S.-Russia Relations: Unfinished Business
Michael A. McFaul, Dimitri Simes
Subcommittee on Europe, House Committee on International Relations, United States Congress (2003) - U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya
Michael A. McFaul
Washington: Twentieth Century Foundation (2003) - Breakthrough or Breakdown? The Future of Democracy in Ukraine
Michael A. McFaul
Washington: National Endowment of Democracy (2003) - Workshop on Regime Transitions from Communist Rule in Comparative Perspective
Michael A. McFaul, Gail W. Lapidus, Larry Diamond
(2003) - U.S.-Russian Relations After September 11th
Michael A. McFaul, Celeste A. Wallander, Z. Blake Marshall
Sucommittee on Europe, Committee on International Relations, United States Congress (2002) - Generational Change in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Center for Strategic & International Studies (2002) - Are Russians Undemocratic?
Timothy J. Colton, Michael A. McFaul
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace vol. 20 (2001) - Party Formation and Non-Formation in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace vol. 12 (2000) - The United States and Russia: Partners or Competitors?
Celeste A. Wallander, Michael A. McFaul
The Stanley Foundation (2000) - Russia's Election: What Does It Mean?
James Collins, Michael A. McFaul, Peter Reddaway, Blair Ruble, Matt Salmon, Steny Hoyer, Frank Wolf
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress (1996) - Industrial Demilitarization, Privatization, Economic Reform, and Investment in Russia: Analysis and Recommendations
David M. Bernstein, Michael A. McFaul
CISAC (1993)
Journal Articles
Morocco's Elections: The Limits of Limited Reforms
Michael A. McFaul, Tamara Wittes
Journal of Democracy vol. 19, 1 (2008)
Myth of the Authoritarian Model, The
Michael A. McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Foreign Affairs vol. 87, 1 (2008)
Ukraine Imports Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
International Security vol. 32, 2 (2007)
Third Way, A: normalizing relations will help both sides
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Boston Review (2007)
Are New Democracies War-Prone?
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 18, 2 (2007)
Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia
Rui J. P. Figueiredo, Jr., Michael A. McFaul, Barry R. Weingast
Publius vol. 37, 2 (2007)
Iran's weakened hard-liners crave a US attack
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani, Larry Diamond
Christian Science Monitor (2007)
Liberal Is as Liberal Does
Michael A. McFaul
The American Interest (2007)- Why a Democratic Russia Should Join NATO
Michael A. McFaul, Leonid Gozman
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2006) 
Sovereign Democracy and Shrinking Political Space
Michael A. McFaul
Russia Business Watch vol. 14, 2 (2006)
Playing for the Long Haul in Iran: A Dual Track Strategy for Arms Control and Democratization
Michael A. McFaul
Brown Journal of International Affairs vol. 12, 2 (2006)
Political Transitions: Democracy and the Former Soviet Union
Michael A. McFaul
Harvard International Review vol. 28, 1 (2006)
Engaging Autocratic Allies to Promote Democracy
Michael A. McFaul, David Adesnik
The Washington Quarterly vol. 29, 2 (2006)
Russian Resilience as a Great Power
Michael A. McFaul, Alexandra Vacroux
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 22, 1 (2006)
A Win-Win U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran
Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond, Abbas Milani
The Washington Quarterly (2006)
Russia's No Democracy? So What?
Michael A. McFaul, James M. Goldgeier
Hoover Digest vol. 3 (2006)
How Iran Can Yet Be Tamed
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Hoover Digest vol. 2 (2006)- Beyond Incrementalism: A New U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani, Larry Diamond
Hoover Institution Press (2005) 
What Democracy Assistance Is and Is Not
Michael A. McFaul
Diplomaatia vol. 16 (2005)
Democracy Promotion as a World Value
Michael A. McFaul
The Washington Quarterly vol. 28, 1 (2005)
A Transatlantic Strategy to Promote Democratic Development in the Broader Middle East
Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond, Ronald Asmus, Mark Leonard
The Washington Quarterly vol. 28, 2 (2005)
Transitions from Postcommunism
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 16, 3 (2005)
Russia and the West: A Dangerous Drift
Michael A. McFaul
Current History (2005)
What to Do about Russia
Michael A. McFaul, James Goldgeier
Policy Review vol. 133 (2005)
Chinese Dreams, Persian Realities
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 16, 4 (2005)
Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us
Michael A. McFaul, Nikolai Petrov
Journal of Democracy vol. 15, 3 (2004)
Reengaging Russia: A New Agenda
Michael A. McFaul
Current History (2004)
Putin and the 'Delegative Democracy' Trap: Evidence from Russia's 2003-04 Elections
Michael A. McFaul, Timothy Colton, Henry Hale
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 20 (2004)- Generational Change in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
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Second Russian Revolution, The
Michael A. McFaul
Russian Business Watch vol. 11, 4 (2003)
Are Russians Undemocratic?
Michael A. McFaul, Timothy Colton
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 18, 2 (2002)
The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World
Michael A. McFaul
World Politics vol. 54, 2 (2002)- Russian Civil Society
Michael A. McFaul
Demokratizatsiya vol. 10, 2 (2002) 
The Liberty Doctrine: Reclaiming the Purpose of American Power
Michael A. McFaul
Policy Review vol. 112 (2002)
George W. Bush and Russia
Michael A. McFaul, James Goldgeier
Current History vol. 101, 657 (2002)- Preventive Defense in Central Asia
Michael A. McFaul, Linda McGinnis
National Security Studies Quarterly vol. 7, 4 (2001) 
Realistic Engagement: A New Approach to American-Russian Relations
Michael A. McFaul
Current History vol. 100, 648 (2001)
The Liberal Core and Realist Periphery in Europe
Michael A. McFaul, James Goldgeier
Perspectives on European Politics and Society vol. 1, 2 (2001)
America's Real Russian Allies
Michael A. McFaul, Timothy Colton
Foreign Affairs vol. 80, 6 (2001)
"Managed Democracy" in Russia: Putin and the Press
Michael A. McFaul
Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics vol. 6, 3 (2001)
Explaining Party Emergence and Non-Emergence in Post-Communist Russia: Institutions, Agents, and Chance
Michael A. McFaul
Comparative Political Studies vol. 34, 10 (2001)
Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: A Mixed Record, An Uncertain Future
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 12, 4 (2001)- Russia's 1999 Parliamentary Elections: Party Consolidation and Fragmentation
Michael A. McFaul
Demokratizatsiya vol. 8, 1 (2000) 
Yeltsin's Legacy
Michael A. McFaul
The Wilson Quarterly (2000)- Russian Democracy -- A U.S. National Security Interest
Michael A. McFaul, Sarah Mendelson
Demokratizatsiya vol. 8, 3 (2000) 
Russia Under Putin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 11, 3 (2000)
Reinventing Russia's Party of Power: "Unity" and the 1999 Duma Election
Michael A. McFaul, Timothy Colton
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 16, 3 (2000)- Nobody Lost Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Blueprint (2000) 
Russia's Stalled Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
The World and I (2000)
Putin in Power
Michael A. McFaul
Current History (2000)
Getting Russia Right
Michael A. McFaul
Foreign Policy (2000)
Russia Democracy: Still Not a Lost Cause
Michael A. McFaul
The Washington Quarterly vol. 23, 1 (2000)
Authoritarian and Democratic Responses to Financial Meltdown in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Problems of Post-Communism vol. 46, 4 (1999)- Russia's Many Foreign Policies
Michael A. McFaul
Demokratizatsiya vol. 7, 3 (1999) 
Institutional Design, Uncertainty, and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases from Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Constitutional Political Economy vol. 10, 1 (1999)
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Perils of a Protracted Transition
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 10, 2 (1999)
Lessons from Russia's Protracted Transition from Communist Rule
Michael A. McFaul
Political Science Quarterly vol. 114, 1 (1999)
Russia's 'Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation Part I
Michael A. McFaul
Security Dialogue vol. 29, 2 (1998)
Russia's 'Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation Part II
Michael A. McFaul
Security Dialogue vol. 29, 3 (1998)- Refocusing American Policy towards Russia: Theory and Practice
Michael A. McFaul
Demokratizatsiya vol. 6, 2 (1998) 
Russia's Summer of Discontent
Michael A. McFaul
Current History (1998)
The Precarious Peace: Domestic Politics in the Making of Russian Foreign Policy
Michael A. McFaul
International Security vol. 22, 3 (1998)
Theorizing about Post-Communist Transitions: A book review of Klaus von Beyme's "Transitions to Democracy in Eastern Europe"
Michael A. McFaul
Slavic Review (1998)- Russia: Transition without Consolidation
Michael A. McFaul
Freedom Review vol. 28, 1 (1997) 
Democracy Unfolds in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Current History vol. 96, 612 (1997)- Clinton's Foreign Policy: The Second Term
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1997) - Lebed: the Next Hope?
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1997) 
Russia's Ominous Void
Michael A. McFaul
New York Times (1997)- New Kind of Candidate
Michael A. McFaul, Sergei Markov
Moscow Times (1997) - Time Ripe for Yabloko
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1997) 
Russia: The Election of '96
Michael A. McFaul
Hoover Digest vol. 4 (1997)- Skewed NATO Debate
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1997) - The Myth of a Russian Dictatorship
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1997) - Life after Boris Yeltsin
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1997) 
Russia Between Elections: The Vanishing Center
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Democracy vol. 7, 2 (1996)
Is Yeltsin the Chechens' Biggest Hostage?
Michael A. McFaul
Chicago Tribune (1996)- Has Yeltsin Lost Steam?
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1996) - Who Supported Lebed?
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1996) - A Victory for Optimists
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1996) 
Russia: Still A Long Way to Go
Michael A. McFaul
Washington Post (1996)
Yanks Brag, Press Bites
Michael A. McFaul
The Weekly Standard vol. 1, 43 (1996)
What Russian Crisis?
Michael A. McFaul
New York Times (1996)
The Allocation of Property Rights in Russia: The First Round
Michael A. McFaul
Communist and Post-Communist Studies vol. 29, 3 (1996)- A Win for Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
Moscow Times (1995) 
Like a Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
Washington Post (1995)
U.S. Needs to Support Free and Fair Elections in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1995)
A Communist Rout?
Michael A. McFaul
New York Times (1995)
Why Russia's Politics Matter
Michael A. McFaul
Foreign Affairs vol. 74, 1 (1995)
Russian Politics After Chechnya
Michael A. McFaul
Foreign Policy vol. 99 (1995)
State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
World Politics vol. 47, 2 (1995)
Russian Politics: The Calm Before the Storm?
Michael A. McFaul
Current History vol. 93, 585 (1994)- Thwarting the Specter of Russian Fascism
Michael A. McFaul
Demokratizatsiya vol. 1, 2 (1993) - A Tale of Two Worlds: Core and Periphery in the Post-Cold War Era
Michael A. McFaul, James M. Goldgeier
International Organization vol. 46, 2 (1992) - Workers of the World Unite! Again?: Socialist Politics in Post-Communist Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Work in Progress vol. 76 (1991) 
Rethinking the 'Reagan Doctrine' in Angola
Michael A. McFaul
International Security vol. 14, 3 (1990)
The Demise of the World Revolutionary Process: Soviet-Angolan Relations Under Gorbachev
Michael A. McFaul
Journal of Southern African Studies vol. 16, 3 (1990)
Books & Book Chapters
With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty
Will Marshall, Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (2006)
The Russian Republic
Ronald Suny, Michael A. McFaul, et al. (contributors)
Cambridge University Press in "The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. III", Ronald Grigor Suny, ed. (2006)
Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
Michael A. McFaul, Anders Aslund
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2006) 
Countries at the Crossroads 2005: A Survey of Democratic Governance
Michael A. McFaul, Sarah Repucci, Christopher Walker
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (2005)
After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition
Michael A. McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Cambridge University Press (2004)
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform
Michael A. McFaul, Nikolai Petrov, Andrei Ryabov
Washington Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2004) 
Individuals Matter: Yeltsin's Role in Destroying Communism
Michael A. McFaul, Condoleezza Rice, Kiron Skinner
Hoover Institution Press in "Turning Points in the Ending of the Cold War", Condoleezza Rice and Kiron Skinner, eds. (2003)
Yeltsin's Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Cambridge University Press in "The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. III", Ronald Suny, ed. (2003)
Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000
Michael A. McFaul, Timothy Colton
Washington: Brookings Institution Press (2003)
Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War
Michael A. McFaul, James Goldgeier
Brookings Institution Press (2003) 
Putin and Democratization
Michael A. McFaul, Timothy Colton
M.E. Sharpe in "The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain", Dale Herspring, ed. (2003)
Putin and the Media
Michael A. McFaul, Masha Lipman
M.E. Sharpe in "The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain", Dale Herspring, ed. (2003)- U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya
Michael A. McFaul
Washington: Twentieth Century Foundation (2003) - Breakthrough or Breakdown? The Future of Democracy in Ukraine
Michael A. McFaul
Washington: National Endowment of Democracy (2003) 
Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin
Michael A. McFaul
Cornell University Press (2002)
Evaluating Yeltsin and his Revolution
Michael A. McFaul
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in "Russia After the Fall", Andrew Kuchins, ed. (2002)
The Sovereignty 'Script': The Red Book for Russia's Revolutionaries
Michael A. McFaul
Columbia University Press in "Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities", Stephen Krasner, ed. (2001)
Russian Electoral Trends
Michael A. McFaul
Cambridge University Press in "Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization", Zoltan Borany, ed. (2001)
Russia on the Eve of the 1999 Duma Elections
Michael A. McFaul, Andrei Ryabov, Nikolai Petrov
Moscow Carnegie Center (2000)
Far East Challenges to Russian Federalism: Myths and Realities
Michael A. McFaul
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in "Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russian-Chinese Relations in a Changing Asia", Sherman Garnett (2000)
Changing Function of Elections in Russian Politics, The
Michael A. McFaul, Nikolai Petrov
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in "Russia After Communism", Anders Aslund and Martha Olcott, eds. (1999)
Political Economy of Social Policy Reform in Russia, The: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests
Michael A. McFaul
Westview Press in "Left Parties and Social Policy in Post-Communist Europe", Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Mitchell Ornstein, and Linda Cook, eds. (1999)
Reform during Revolution: Foreward to "Days of Defeat and Victory"
Michael A. McFaul
University of Washington Press in "Days of Defeat and Victory", Yegor Gaidar (1999)
Russia's Choice: The Perils of Revolutionary Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
Brookings Institution in "Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Elections of 1993", Timothy Colton and Jerry Hough, eds. (1998)
Russia's Rough Ride
Michael A. McFaul
Johns Hopkins University Press in "Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies", Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds. (1997)
Russian Economic Interest Groups: Winners and Losers in the Politics of Economic Reform
Michael A. McFaul
Center for International Security and Arms Control in "Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises", David Bernstein, ed. (1997)
American Policy Towards Russia: Framework for Analysis and Guide to Action
Michael A. McFaul
United States Army War College in "The United States and Russia into the 21st Century" (1997)
Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Transaction Book in "Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1995-1996" (1997)
Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics
Michael A. McFaul
Hoover Institution Press (1997)
Revolutionary Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Defining a Post-Communist Research Agenda
Michael A. McFaul
Westview Press in "Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin", David Holloway and Norman Naimark, eds. (1996)
Demilitarization and Defense Conversion
Michael A. McFaul, David Holloway
Westview Press in "The New Russia", Gail Lapidus, ed. (1995)
Revolutionary Ideas, State Interests, and Russian Foreign Policy
Michael A. McFaul
M.E. Sharpe in "Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia", Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed. (1995)
Agency Problems in the Privatization of Large Enterprises in Russia
Michael A. McFaul, Tova Perlmutter
Center for International Security and Arms Control in "Privatization, Conversion, and Enterprise Reform", Michael McFaul and Tova Perlmutter, eds. (1994)
Machinostroenie Enterprise, The
Michael A. McFaul, Jeffrey Lehrer, Tova Perlmutter
Center for International Security and Arms Control in "Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia", Bernstein, ed. (1994)
Impuls
Michael A. McFaul, Elaine Naugle, Tova Perlmutter
Center for International Security and Arms Control in "Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia", Bernstein, ed. (1994)
Privatization at Four Enterprises
Michael A. McFaul
Center for International Security and Arms Control in "Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia: Case Studies and Analysis", David Bernstein, ed. (1994)
Dynamics of Change in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, The
Michael A. McFaul
St. Martin's Press in "World Security: Challenges for a New Century", Michael Klare and Daniel Thomas, eds. (1993)
The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Politics Parties, Programs, and Profiles
Michael A. McFaul, Sergei Markov
Hoover Institution Press (1993)
Post-Communist Politics: Democratic Prospects in Russia and Eastern Europe
Michael A. McFaul
Center for Strategic & International Studies (1993)
Op-eds & Editorials
- What Reagan and Shultz can teach us about talking to Iran
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Democracy Arsenal on July 7, 2008 - The Fear Factor
The economy came to life during Putin's term, but his real legacy is in transforming the political landscape.
Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Newsweek on March 2, 2008 - Medvedev Should Move Beyond Autocracy
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Michael A. McFaul
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Energy Tribune on February 13, 2008 - The Right Way to Engage Iran
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Washington Post on December 29, 2007 - The Myth of Putin's Success
Michael A. McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
CDDRL, FSI Stanford Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on December 13, 2007 - The U.S. and Egypt: Giving Up on the Liberty Doctrine
Michael A. McFaul, Amr Hamzawy
Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on July 3, 2006 - Inside Iran's Fractured Regime
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Op-ed: Washington Post on June 18, 2006 - End of Partnership
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Kommersant on May 11, 2006 - Ukraine's Victors
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on March 29, 2006 - Ukraine's Democracy Has a Lot of Life Yet
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The National Post on March 24, 2006 - A Checking Account for Democracy
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on March 6, 2006 - Gas Wars
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Hoover Digest on March 1, 2006 - Putin on the Ritz
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Weekly Standard on February 27, 2006 - Vladimir the Terrible
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Washington Post on February 14, 2006 - To Tame Tehran
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Op-ed: Washington Post on January 28, 2006 - What's a Corrupt Election Among Friends?
Michael A. McFaul, Chingiz F. Mammadov
Op-ed: The Los Angeles Times on October 23, 2005 - Political Charades
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on September 30, 2005 - Cracks in the land of the ayatollahs
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on June 17, 2005 - It's OK to Scold the Backslider
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on May 8, 2005 - Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation
Michael A. McFaul, Peter Berkowitz
FSI Stanford, CDDRL Op-ed: The Washington Post on April 12, 2005 - The False Promise of Autocratic Stability
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Hoover Digest on April 10, 2005 - Was Bush Right About the War?
Michael A. McFaul, Amr Hamzawy
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on March 20, 2005 - Putin's Authoritarian Soul
Michael A. McFaul, James M. Goldgeier
Op-ed: The Weekly Standard on February 28, 2005 - Finding Russia's True Friends and Foes
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Moscow Times on February 18, 2005 - Reporters Paved Way for a Freer Ukraine
Michael A. McFaul, Nadia Diuk
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on December 26, 2004 - Meddling in Ukraine: Democracy Is Not an American Plot
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Washington Post on December 21, 2004 - Putin Gambles Big--and Loses
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Weekly Standard on November 12, 2004 - Persian Dilemmas: The Discouraging Lessons of U.S. Iranian Relations
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Slate on December 2, 2004 - How U.S. Should Take on Iran
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
CISAC Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on November 28, 2004 - A Washington Perspective (on the Ukrainian Elections)
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Moscow Times on October 29, 2004 - Engaging Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on October 22, 2004 - Ukraine's Election is Pivotal
Michael A. McFaul, John Didiuk
Op-ed: Ukrainian Weekly on October 10, 2004 - Russia's Democracy Falters, Bush Watches
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Akron Beacon Journal on October 1, 2004 - State of Siege: Putin's Strong Hand is Failing Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Washington Post on September 12, 2004 - The Putin Paradox
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Center for American Progress on June 20, 2004 - Veering from Reagan
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on June 18, 2004 - Reagan's Unfinished Agenda: Democracy Still Has a Way to Go in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on June 13, 2004 - Little to Show From Putin
Michael A. McFaul
FSI Stanford, CDDRL Op-ed: Washington Post on March 14, 2004 - A trans-Atlantic plan for democracy: A joint plan to help the Greater Middle East
Michael A. McFaul, Urban Ahlin, Ronald Asmus, Steven Everts, Jana Hybáková, Mark Leonard, Michael Mertes
Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on March 15, 2004 - Russia's Glass Is Half Full and Leaking
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: RFE/RL Political Weekly on March 15, 2004 - Review of Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders by George Breslauer
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Slavic Review on March 12, 2004 - Lets Get Serious About Democracy in the Greater Middle East
Michael A. McFaul, Ronald Asmus
Op-ed: PPI Front and Center on March 9, 2004 - Solidarity with Iran
Michael A. McFaul, Abbas Milani
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on February 23, 2004 - Stable and Stagnant Relations
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on February 11, 2004 - Reconsidering Our Foreign Policy: America's Second Chance in Iraq
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on December 23, 2003 - Doom and Duma? Why the Nationalists Surged in the Russian Election
Michael A. McFaul
December 16, 2003 Op-ed: Slate - Russian Elections Show Resurgence of Nationalism
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on December 12, 2003 - The Dangers of "Managed Democracy"
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: RFE/RL Russian Political Report on December 11, 2003 - Manageable Nationalists?
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on December 8, 2003 - Vladimir Putin's Grand Strategy
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Weekly Standard on November 17, 2003 - Shine the Light of Liberty in Russia as Well
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Hoover Weekly Essay on November 24, 2003 - Turtle Bay Tango
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Wall Street Journal on October 14, 2003 - Rushing Elections Will Only Hurt Iraq
Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on September 28, 2003 - 'New Russia' Ailing; Stand Up, Mr. Bush
Michael A. McFaul, James Goldgeier
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on September 21, 2003 - Wrong Time to 'Stay the Course'
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on August 24, 2003 - A Blurred Vision
Michael A. McFaul, Larry Diamond, Abbas Milani
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on July 20, 2003 - Democracy as a New International Norm?
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Hoover Weekly on June 16, 2003 - Camps of Terror, Often Overlooked
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on June 11, 2003 - How to Reinvigorate the Relationship
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on May 26, 2003 - Staying Power
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on April 20, 2003 - Between Restoration and Revolution in Iraq
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on April 16, 2003 - Reshaping the Middle East: Winning a Lasting Peace in Iraq Will Take More than Tanks
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on February 23, 2003 - U.S. Ignores Putin's Assault on Rights
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on February 2, 2003 - Bush's Turn: Dueling Ideologies Make Justification for War Unclear
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on January 19, 2003 - An Alliance That Really Works
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on November 24, 2002 - What About Iran?
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Daily Report on October 14, 2002 - A Reshaped Role for the U.N.
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on October 6, 2002 - A Man for All Seasons: A New, More Flexible George W. Bush
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on September 29, 2002 - Unfinished Business in Europe
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on September 22, 2002 - Change the Focus on Iraq
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Christian Science Monitor on September 16, 2002 - Keep Pressing Putin
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Christian Science Monitor on May 29, 2002 - Taking the Russia Summit a Step Further
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on May 20, 2002 - The Russian Graduate
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on May 10, 2002 - The Other Half of the Job
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on February 2, 2002 - Two Out of Three Is Not Good Enough
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on January 28, 2002 - 9/11 BEFORE & AFTER
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on December 30, 2001 - A Half-Democratic Russia Will Always be a Half-Ally to the United States
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Obshchaya Gazeta on November 15, 2001 - Putin's Risky Westward Turn
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Christian Science Monitor on November 9, 2001 - Milestones of Russian Reform
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Washington Times on November 8, 2001 - Putin's Moment of Truth
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Daily Report on October 15, 2001 - This is Russia's Chance to Become a Full Partner
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on October 2, 2001 - Strike at the Root
Michael A. McFaul, Linda McGinnis
Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle on September 30, 2001 - To Fight a New 'Ism'
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on September 22, 2001 - Bush's Post-Cold War Vision
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Christian Science Monitor on July 26, 2001 - Russia's 12 Myths About the U.S. Media
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Moscow Times on July 13, 2001 - Judge Putin by His Democratic Acts, Not His Talk
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2001 - West or East for Russia?
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Washington Post on June 9, 2001 - Putin Shows His True Colors
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The New Republic on May 28, 2001 - A Step Backward on Nuclear Cooperation
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on April 11, 2001 - The New Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Weekly Standard on April 9, 2001 - Time for Putin to Take the Initiative
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on April 9, 2001 - U.S. Must Speak Out for Russian Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on April 8, 2001 - Moscow, Misreading Bush
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on January 23, 2001 - Get Real, Russia!
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on January 18, 2001 - No Simple Truths About Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on September 30, 2000 - Kremlin Man Fails the Test
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Sunday Times (London) on August 27, 2000 - Russian Rationalism, At Home and Abroad
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Wall Street Journal Europe on July 17, 2000 - Indifferent to Democracy
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on March 3, 2000 - With Yeltsin Gone, Putin Seems Destined to be Next President
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on January 2, 2000 - Scoring Russia's Duma Vote: State 2, Society 1
Michael A. McFaul
January 1, 2000 Op-ed: Parliamentary Elections Bulletin - Parliamentary Parties and Presidential Coalitions
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Parliamentary Elections Bulletin on December 17, 1999 - War Protesters Scarce
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on October 26, 1999 - Russia's Dual Dramas: Despite All the Bad News, Democracy Marches On
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on October 3, 1999 - Who Won and Will Win Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: PONARS Policy Memo on October 1, 1999 - Russia's Revolution Is Not Over
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Christian Science Monitor on September 20, 1999 - With Foes Like Communists, How Can Yeltsin Ever Lose?
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on May 23, 1999 - Time to Follow the Law
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on May 15, 1999 - Russia's PR Coup
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on May 8, 1999 - Don't Look to Russia for Help on Kosovo
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on April 8, 1999 - NATO's Collateral Damage in Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: The Christian Science Monitor on April 5, 1999 - Russia: Indispensable Thorn in U.S. Side
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on April 4, 1999 - The Demon Within
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on March 2, 1999 - Kosova Intervention by U.S. Will Be a Hard Sell
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Illyria on February 26, 1999 - A Flawed Pragmatism
Michael A. McFaul, Jim Goldgeier
Op-ed: Moscow Times on October 10, 1998 - A Russia Still Redeemable
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on September 21, 1998 - Is This Last Red Duma?
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on September 10, 1998 - Forget About Monica, It's Moscow and the Stakes are Global
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Los Angeles Times on August 14, 1998 - Russia Needs True Reform, Not Higher Taxes
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on August 4, 1998 - Clinton's Moscow Mission
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: PONARS Policy Memo on August 1, 1998 - China Is No Russia
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: New York Times on May 26, 1998 - Russia: The Sky Has Not Fallen
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Washington Post on May 19, 1998 - Perils of Yeltsin's Passion
Michael A. McFaul
Op-ed: Moscow Times on April 2, 1998
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