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Russia and NATO: Moscow’s Foreign Policy and the Partnership for Peace

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Samuel Wise

Staff Director

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Witnesses

Lawrence DiRita

Deputy Director of Foreign and Defense Policy

Heritage Foundation

Dr. Phillip Petersen

Principle Researcher

Potomac Foundation

This briefing examined what role Russia would play in the Partnership for Peace and NATO. It also looks at human rights concerns as well as military, security, and economic relations bewteen Russia and the West. Several complexities of this situation in the context of the post-communist period were addressed.

Witnesses testifying at the briefing – including Lawrence DiRita, Deputy Director of Foreign and Defense Policy for the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Phillip Petersen, Principle Researcher for the Potomac Foundation – evaluated the Partnership for Peace Framework, which worked towards establishing partnerships with a number of European country, including those of the former Soviet Union. The role of Russian policy in this partnership was an especially debated topic.

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