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"Moscow's Multipolar Mirage," United Press International, October 10, 2005
"Putin's Pro-Israel Policy," Middle East Quarterly,  Winter 2005
"Russia and America after Beslan," Eurasianet, October 13, 2004
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Europe/Radio Liberty, October 7, 2004
"Don't Dismiss China's Daqing Oil Pipeline," Asia Times Online, October 1, 2004
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"Russian-Iranian Relations in the Putin Era," Demokratizatsiya, Winter 2002
"Russia and Israel: A Complex Relationship" Lebanon Wire, April 16, 2008
"Can Putin Link the Georgian and Iranian Crises?" Eurasianet, September 24, 2008
"Russian Foreign Policy: Assertive but Alone," The World Today, November 2007
"Russian-Iranian Relations in the Ahmadinejad Era," Middle East Journal, Spring 2008
"Comparing Putin's and Brezhnev's Policies toward the Middle East," Society, March-April 2008
"Russia and Algeria: Partners or Competitors?" Middle East Policy, Winter 2007
"Putin, Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis," Middle East Policy, Winter 2006
"The Putin-Chavez Partnership," Problems of Post-Communism, July-August 2006
"Less Than Great Expectations: The Pakistani-Russian Rapprochement," Current
History, March 2005
"Exploiting Rivalries for Prestige and Profit: An Assessment of Putin's Foreign
Policy Approach," Problems of Post-Communism, May-June 2005
"Playing the Angles: Russian Diplomacy Before and During the War in Iraq," Middle East
Policy, Fall 2003
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"Unfaithful Allies," Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, Summer 2001
"Russia and Qatar," Middle East Review of International Affairs, December 2007
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"Moscow's Latest Moves: How Serious a Threat?" Eurasianet, December 5, 2008
"Implications of the Georgian Crisis for Israel, Iran, and the West," Middle East
Review of International Affairs, December 2008
"The Role of Iran and Afghanistan in U.S.-Russian Relations," Eurasianet, March 6, 2008
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