Topic: Eastern Europe and Central Asia

A Comprehensive Nuclear Arms Reduction Regime: Interim Report (2001) - The study up to this point primarily focused on the technical aspects of a potential nuclear arms monitoring regime, including specific monitoring...

An Assessment of the International Science and Technology Center: Redirecting Expertise in Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Former Soviet Union (1996) - The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) was established to help address a perceived crisis that was created by the dissolution of the...

Balancing and Sharing Political Power in Multiethnic Societies: Summary of a Workshop (1993) - This report summarizes discussions at a workshop, “Balancing and Sharing Political Power in Multiethnic Societies,” held in Moscow on January 25–27,...

Biodiversity Conservation in Transboundary Protected Areas (1996) - Recognizing the increasing rate of species loss on a global scale and that neither pollution nor ecosystems respects political boundaries,...

Challenges for the 1990s for Arms Control and International Security (1989) - Featuring essays by prominent experts in international security, this volume surveys the status and prospects for progress in every major area of...

Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies - The NRC Committee on Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies addresses (1) characteristics of peaceful management of tensions in...

Conflict and Resolution in Multiethnic Societies: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2003) - In February 2000, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) proposed to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that the academies initiate a joint...

Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Blueprint for U.S.-Russian Cooperation, A Report to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the U.S. Department of Defense (1997) - A 14-member committee was formed which included members of a Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) working group, the co-chair...

Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Blueprint for U.S.-Russian Cooperation, A Report to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the U.S. Department of Defense (Russian version, 1997) - A 14-member committee was formed which included members of a Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) working group, the co-chair...

Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States: Proceedings of a Workshop - In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy of...

Crisis Management in the Nuclear Age (1987) - Despite 40 years of the nuclear arms race, the US and Soviet Union succeeded in avoiding nuclear war. Because the consequences of such a war would...

Determination of High-Resolution Structures for the Post-Genomic Age (2001) - The U.S. National Research Council sponsored an intensive lab course for researchers from Central/Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States....

Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in the Post-Cold War Era (1994) - This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use...

Ecological Risks: Perspectives from Poland and the United States (1990) - The various chapters of this book were developed to illustrate the current state of knowledge about ecological risks in Poland and the US. The...

End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States (2003) - This report provides an analysis of the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in Russia and the United States, describing...

Energy Planning, Management and Efficiency in Local Context: Summary of an American-Bulgarian-Romanian Workshop (1994) - In November 1993, the National Research Council (NRC), the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the Romanian Academy co-sponsored a workshop on “Energy...

Establishing Priorities for US-Russian Cooperation in Countering Radiological Terrorism - An ad hoc committee will be established to develop recommendations for priorities for US-Russian cooperation to be considered by the Department of...

Exchange Program with Russian Institutes in Biomedical Sciences (2001) - The National Research Council (NRC) is sponsoring a program of international exchange for American scientists interested in the prophylaxis,...

Future Contributions of the Biosciences to Public Health, Agriculture, Basic Research, Counter-terrorism, and Non-Proliferation Activities in Russia - ...

Future Contributions of the Biosciences to Public Health, Agriculture, Basic Research, Counter-terrorism, and Non-Proliferation Activities in Russia - This project will build on the recent track record of the National Academies in promoting redirection of Russian BW expertise through its 1997...

Genome-wide Approaches to Understanding Bacterial Pathogenesis Prague, Czech Republic September 8-21, 2002 - With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the U.S. National Research Council sponsored an intensive lab course for researchers from...

High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2002) - In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a high-technology society...

International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War (2000) - In the early 1990s many observers had begun to wonder to what extent the conventional wisdom about international conflict resolution, developed from...

International Research Experiences for U.S. Undergraduates: Visiting Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (INTREU) - This program offers grants to individual U.S. specialists who would like to initiate an international Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)...

International Transit Studies Program, Report on the 1996 Missions: Urban and Regional Bus Operations in Smaller European Cities (1997) - This digest summarizes the fourth and fifth missions performed under Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project J-3, International Transit...

International Transit Studies Program: Report on the Fall 2002 Mission, Transit Operations in Central and Eastern Europe (2003) - This digest summarizes the mission performed October 17-31, 2002, under Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project J-3, International...

Molecular Interactions of Proteins and DNA: An Intensive Lecture/Laboratory Course (2003) - The Academies organized an intensive course on the Molecular Interactions of Proteins and DNA at the Institute of Biotechnology in Vilnius,...

Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues (1985) - This nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their present...

Nutrition Surveys and Surveillance Activities in Russia and the Newly Independent States: A Review of USAID-Sponsored Activities (1994) - In order for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to have a standing capability in the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Committee on...

Partners on the Frontier: The Future of U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Science and Technology (1998) - At the request of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Research Council (NRC) hosted a workshop on October 28, 1997, to...

Planetary Sciences: American and Soviet Research/Proceedings from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Workshop on Planetary Sciences (1991) - This book contains the proceedings from a workshop on planetary sciences sponsored by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the National Academy of...

Poland's Transition to a Market Economy: Prospects for Energy Efficiency and Conservation (1994) - This is a report of the proceedings from a National Research Council workshop with the Polish Academy of Sciences on Strategies for Industrial Energy...

Premature Death in the New Independent States (1997) - In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet...

Preventing Terrorists from Obtaining Nuclear Materials in Russia - ...

Proliferation Concerns: Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Technologies in the Former Soviet Union (1997) - The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities...

Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia (1999) - A major technical impediment confronting a nation or group bent on developing nuclear weapons is the difficulty of obtaining the necessary direct-use...

Review of Cooperative Projects with Former Soviet Union Biological Weapons Institutes - The National Research Council will continue its committee activity in assisting the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in the development and...

Reykjavik and Beyond: Deep Reductions in Strategic Nuclear Arsenals and the Future Direction of Arms Control (1988) - No more important issue faces us today than the future success of efforts to manage and control nuclear arsenals. Reykjavik and Beyond represents the...

Science and Democracy (1998) - With the collapse of the communist regimes in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, considerable attention has focused on how to create and...

Science and Technology in Armenia: Toward a Knowledge-Based Economy (2004) - This study analyzes the current status and future development potential of Armenia's science and technology base, including human and infrastructural...

Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy: A Half-Century of U.S.-Russian Interacademy Cooperation (2004) - This report has three main purposes. The first is to provide a brief historical perspective of the evolution of the relationship between the Russian...

Soviet-American Dialogue in the Social Sciences: Research Workshops on Interdependence Among Nations (1990) - This report is the first published product of a collaborative effort sponsored by the US National Research Council and the Academy of Sciences of the...

Soviet Social Science: The Challenge for the American Academic Community, Summary of a Meeting (1990) - In 1989 the Commission on Behavioral and Social Science and Education (CBASSE) believed there was a need to bring together scholars and...

Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2002) - In October 2000 the Department of Energy (DOE), the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), and the National Research Council (NRC) agreed that...

Swords into Market Shares: Technology, Economics, and Security in the New Russia (2000) - While researching this book, Glenn Schweitzer met four Moscow physicists who were trying to license Russian technology to western firms for product...

Technology Commercialization: Russian Challenges, American Lessons (1998) - This collection of papers—by American and Russian specialists—addresses a variety of legal, regulatory, institutional, and financial issues that can...

The Academic Research Enterprise within the Industrialized Nations: Comparative Perspectives (1990) - National policies and programs for scientific and technological research are increasingly formulated within an international context. Research...

The Future of the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Relationship (1991) - The United States and the Soviet Union could drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals below the levels prescribed by the new Strategic Arms...

The Role of Environmental NGOs--Russian Challenges, American Lessons: Proceedings of a Workshop (2001) - In June 1999, the Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences agreed that a joint project on the role of...

Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies (1998) - This ground-breaking new volume focuses on the interaction between political, social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New...

Twinning Grants Program - Administered by the Office for Central Europe and Eurasia of the National Research Council (NRC) with funding provided by the National Science...

USAID Research Support Program - The Policy and Global Affairs (PGA) Division of the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) provides technical and administrative support to the...

U.S.-German Cooperation in Elimination of Excess Weapons Plutonium (1995) - In the process of nuclear arms reduction, the US and Russia are left with an excess of uranium and plutonium weapons materials. This excess material...

U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism - The International Atomic Energy Agency reports numerous incidents of illicit trafficking in radioactive materials, including ionizing radiation...

U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Meeting on Earthquake Hazards Mitigation: September 9-13, 1991, Moscow, U.S.S.R. (1992) - Devastating earthquakes have occurred frequently in both the US and USSSR. When they happened, these earthquakes caused the loss of lives, the...