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Steven Pifer Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institute; Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former US Ambassador to Ukraine (1998-2000) Ukraine’s Challenges, the West’s Response Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Encina Hall Ground Floor Conference Room, E008 Mired in political gridlock, battered by economic crisis, and uncertain about its foreign relations, Ukraine faces a difficult year, a year that will end with a presidential election. How is Ukraine coping with these difficulties? And how should the West respond in helping Ukraine meet the challenges before it? Steven Pifer is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a (non-resident) senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A retired Foreign Service officer, his more than 25 years with the State Department focused on U.S. relations with the former Soviet Union and Europe, as well as on arms control and security issues. His assignments included deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (2001-2004), ambassador to Ukraine (1998-2000), and special assistant to the president and National Security Council senior director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia (1996-1997). He also served at the U.S. embassies in Warsaw, Moscow and London, as well as with the U.S. delegation to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces negotiations in Geneva. He holds a B.A. in economics from Stanford University, where he later spent a year as a visiting scholar at Stanford's Institute for International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Please RSVP: http://fce.stanford.edu/events/registration/5694/ Sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. .

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Foreign Policy at BROOKINGS POLICY PAPER Number 10, January 2009 Reversing the Decline: An Agenda for U.S.-Russian Relations in 2009 Steven Pifer The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20036 brookings.edu Foreign Policy at BROOKINGS POLICY PAPER Number 10, January 2009 Reversing the Decline: An Agenda for U.S.-Russian Relations in 2009 Steven Pifer Acknowledgements am grateful to John Beyrle, Ian Kelly, Michael O’Hanlon, Carlos I Pascual, Theodore Piccone, Strobe Talbott and Alexander Versh- bow for the comments and suggestions that they provided on earlier drafts of this paper. I would also like to express my appreciation to Gail Chalef and Ian Livingston for their assistance. Finally, I would like to thank Daniel Benjamin and the Center on the United States and Europe for their support. Foreign Policy at Brookings iii Table of Contents Introduction and Summary . 1 The Decline in U.S.-Russia Relations . 3 What Does Russia Want? .................................. 7 An Agenda for Engaging Russia in 2009 . 11 Implementing the Agenda .................................21 Endnotes............................................... 25 Foreign Policy at Brookings v Introduction and Summary s the Bush administration comes to a close, Building areas of cooperation not only can advance AU.S.-Russian relations have fallen to their low- specific U.S. goals, it can reduce frictions on other est level since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. issues. Further, the more there is to the bilateral re- Unresolved and problematic issues dominate the lationship, the greater the interest it will hold for Rus- agenda, little confidence exists between Washington sia, and the greater the leverage Washington will have and Moscow, and the shrill tone of official rhetoric with Moscow.
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