Book Release – Russia: The Challenges of Transformation

Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (New York University Press, 2011) – edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University and the Valdai Club member and Dmitry Trenin, Director of the Moscow Carnegie Center – is a unique perspective due to the amount of collective experience in Russia and Russian affairs gathered by its editors and authors and its concept of “re-thinking” Russia. Leading researchers and intellectuals, who come from Russia, Britain, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, and the United States, engage in an intense dialog to examine the current state of affairs in Russia, Russia’s future and challenges of the social, political, and economic transformation.

Despite different backgrounds and ideas advocated by the authors they are unanimous in the rejection of social and political conservatism and isolationism in foreign affairs, and in underlining the need to bring forward changes that would better integrate Russia with the international community and help it avoid stagnation and marginalization.

Contributors include: Oleg Atkov, Timothy J. Colton, Georgi Derluguian, Mikhail K. Gorshkov, Leonid Grigoriev, Nur Kirabaev, Andrew C. Kuchins, Bobo Lo, Roderic Lyne, Vladimir Popov, Alexander Rahr, Richard Sakwa, Guzel Ulumbekova, Vladimir I. Yakunin, Rustem Zhangozha.