Short Pieces & Reviews
"Putin: Trump's Most Dangerous Best Friend," CNN.com, December 11, 2016
"Deal with Russia, But Don't Be Too Eager," The National Interest, December 6, 2016
"Does More Wealth Mean Less Political Corruption," Washington Post, May 6, 2016
"Why Putin Took Crimea: The Gambler in the Kremlin," Foreign Affairs , May-June, 2016
"For Vladimir Putin, What's at Stake in Metrojet Investigation," CNN.com, November 6, 2015
"The New Dictators Rule by Velvet Fist," with Sergei Guriev, The New York Times, May 25, 2015
"The New Authoritarianism," with Sergei Guriev, Vox, March 21, 2015
-- Russian version in Vedomosti (Moscow) "Avtoritarizm v vek informatsii", March 25, 2015
-- Spanish version in Prodavinci.com (Venezuela) "El Nuevo Autoritarismo; por Sergei Guriev y Daniel Treisman," March 28, 2015
"The complicated life-and tragic death-of Boris Nemtsov,"
CNN.com,, March 2, 2015
"Normal Countries: The East 25 Years After Communism," with Andrei Shleifer, Foreign Affairs, November-December 2014
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"Vladimir Putin's Big Blunder," CNN.com, July 20, 2014
"Clock Is Ticking: Only Days to Solve the Crimea Crisis," CNN.com, March 8, 2014
"The Two Putins," CNN.com, March 3, 2014
"Vladimir Putin's Remarkable Comeback," CNN.com, February 3, 2014
"Snowden is an Unwanted Guest in Putin's Russia," CNN.com, August 2, 2013
"Why the Kremlin Hates Levada Center," The Moscow Times, May 24, 2013
"Recycling Old Soviet Chestnuts," Open Democracy, May 10, 2013
My brief exchange with Prime Minister Medvedev at the Krasnoyarsk Economic
Forum, February 15, 2013
Opposition Needs to Appeal to the 'Real Russia', The Moscow Times, May 5, 2012
“Why Russia Protects Syria’s Assad,” CNN.com, February 2, 2012
“A Runoff in March Could Help Legitimize Putin,” The Moscow Times, December 22, 2011
“Vote May Mark Beginning of the End for Putin,” CNN.com, December 6, 2011
“Putin and Medvedev, Trading Places,” CNN.com, September 26, 2011
Does Russia Need a Tom Sawyer Strategy for Economic Growth?
---To view Russian version published in Moskovskie Novosti, April 4, 2011
---To view German version published in Die Presse (Vienna), May 6, 2011
Beyond Horror and Mystery, IWM-Post (Vienna), 2010-11
Moscow Bombing Weakens Putin's Standing, CNN.com, January 27, 2011
Medvedev and Putin, Brothers Under the Skin, CNN.com, January 7, 2011
The US and Russia: They Don't Need Us, with Andrei Shleifer
---To view shorter version published in Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 2011
What keeps the Kremlin up all night? Moscow Times, Feb 18, 2008
Putin’s Silovarchs, Orbis, Winter 2007
A Normal Country, with Andrei Shleifer
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To view shorter version published in Foreign
Affairs, March-April 2004
--- To view longer NBER working paper
--- see also, Next to its peers, Russia is normal, International
Herald Tribune, Feb 28, 2004
Globalization and its Discontents, East European Constitutional Review, Spring 2003
Russia Renewed?, Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2002
Revolutionary Russia, East European Constitutional Review, Fall 2002