ECAAR-RUSSIA Newsletter

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# 10, July 2004

Contents:

NEWSLETTER # 9, February 2004

Contents:

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE

SUMMARY OF THE RUSSIAN EDITION

RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND AFTER

ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF RUSSIAN OIL

ARMAMENT BUILDUP CONTINUING

 

# 8. November 2003 (English version)

Contents:

INEQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT
ECAAR Seminar in Moscow, September 30 – October 1, 2003

- Summary
- Aleksey Shevyakov, Alexander Kiruta – Economic growth, structural changes of inequality  and socio-economic  polarization in Russia  
- James K. Galbraith, Ludmila Krytynskaia and Qifei Wang – The Experience of Rising Inequality in Russia and China during the Transition  
- Stanislav Menshikov – Structural Problems and Solutions in  the Russian Economy
- Michael D. Intriligator – The Russian Economy: Still in Need of Structural Reform
- Ruslan Grinberg, Tatiana Chubarova – Democratic Values and Inequality, or Democratic Inequality? A Case of the Former Socialist Countries  
- Richard F. Kaufman – Proliferation, Preemption and Nuclear War Fighting  
- Ruslan S. Grinberg, Alexander I.Deykin – Mass media independence in Russia: economic and political aspects


# 7, September 2003 (English version)

Contents:

FULL COSTS of BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
EDITED BY Richard F.Kaufman
with Preface by Kenneth J.Arrow
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction

Preface ............................................................................................................vii
Executive Summary ..........................................................................................ix
Introduction ...................................................................................................xvii
Chapter 1
Costs of Layered U.S.Ballistic Missile Defense
I.Basic Approach ........................................................................................................  ...1
II.Mid-course Defenses ................................................................................................. .4
III.Boost-phase Defenses ..............................................................................................22
IV.Terminal Defenses:U.S.and Theater Missile Defenses ...........................................   42
V.Summing Up ..............................................................................................................55
Conclusions ..................................................................................................................58
Sources.........................................................................................................................60
Chapter 2
Implications of Ballistic Missile Defense for the
Federal Budget and the U.S.Economy
I.Costs of Missile Defense ........................................................................................ ...63
II.Alternative Means of Financing Missile Defense ..................................................... ..65
III.Projections of Federal Spending Through 2035 ........................................................65
IV.Implications of Financing BMD Without Raising Taxes or Debt .................................67
V.Implications of Financing BMD by Raising Taxes ..................................................... .77
VI.Implications of Financing BMD by Borrowing ............................................................80
Conclusions ..................................................................................................................81
Chapter 3
Implications of Ballistic Missile Defense for
National Security,Defense Industries,and Labor Markets
I.Alternative Uses of Planned Expenditures ................................................................  83
II.Defense Industries and Labor Markets .................................................................... .91
Conclusions ..................................................................................................................98

# 6-1, December 2002 (Russian version)

Contents:

ECAAR-Russia activity in 2002

The new US military doctrine in a historical perspective

- James K. Galbraith – Mutual Deterrence and Pre-emptive War

US scholars and other experts on NBMD and other security issues

Nuclear Weapons in Europe

Technical characteristics and cost estimates of NBMD systems

# 5-2 – August 2001
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Articles from ECAAR-US Newsletters:

Publications in US Media:

#4, January 2001

Contents:

ECAAR-Russia Fctivities in 2000

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY UNTIL 2010 (Report of State Council Working Group)
- Social Consolidation as Dasis of Development
- Economics of Growth
- Accelarating and Stabilising Growth

RUSSIAN ECONOMY: POLICIES, TECHNOLOGY, MODERNIZATION (Seminar In Helsinki)
- Factors of Growth - by Viktor Ivanter
- Long-Term Background of Development - by Dmitry Lvov
- Innovation and Its Barriers - by Simon Clark and Veronika Kabalina
- Condition and Prospects for the Defence Complex - by Stanislav Menshikov
- Discussion

PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN NORTH-EAST ASIA (Seminar in Tokyo)
- Economic Foundations of the Peace Process - by Lawrence Klein
- Putin's Russia and Security in North-East Asia - by Stanislav Menshikov
- Discussion

REPRINTED FROM ECAAR-US NEWSLETTERS
- Breaking the Mold: Military Choices for the Twenty-First Century - by Cindy Williams
- The Planned US National Missile Defense: Will it Work? - by George Lewis
- International Control of Ballistic Missiles - by Jurgen Schefran
- Bush vs. Gore on Defense Issues - by Lawrence Klein and Michael Intriligator
- Globalization and its Implications for International Security - by Kenneth Arrow
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#3, August 2000

Contents:

New Economic Program of the Russian Government:
- The Real Meaning of the Gref Package -- by Stanislav Menshikov
- In Need of a New Reform Strategy -- by Dmitry Lvov and Alexander Nekipelov
- Living According to One's Means is an Absurd Idea -- by Viktor Ivanter

ECAAR Seminar in Boston:
- Russia's Economy After August 1998: Was the New Policy Successful? -- by Alexander Nekipelov
- Privatisation in Russia: Is a Retrofit Possible? -- by Marshall Goldman
- New Bridges Across the Chasm: Macro- and Micro-Strategies for Russia -- by Joseph Stiglitz and David Ellerman

ECAAR-Russia Activities in 2000

Reprinted From ECAAR-US Newsletter:
- "Cold Peace"Instead of "Cold War" -- by James Galbraith
- US Defence Expenditure Larger Than in NATO, Russia and China Combined -- by Richard Kaufman
- Seminar on Kosovo:
    Salient Points of the Discussion
    Lessons of Kosovo and US Defence Structure -- Paper by James Galbraith

#2, January 2000

Contents:

    - ECAAR-Russia Enters the New Millenium
    - ECAAR-Russia Activities in 1999
    - Factors of Economic Growth in Russia:
        - Discussion at the Joint US-Russian Seminar in Moscow
        - Interview with James K. Galbraith
        - Papers presented at the seminar:
            - Russia on the Doorstep of the 21th Century, by Oleg Bogomolov
            - Rationalizing the Economy, by Alexander Nekipelov
            - Re-Starting Economic Growth, by Stanislav Menshikov
    - Reprinted from the ECAAR-US Newletter:
            - Calendar of Events
            - Mess in US Procurement, by Richard F. Kaufman
            - Proposed Military Retention Plan Could Turn Costly, by Liesl Heeter
 

#1,  May 1999

Contents:

    - How to Restructure the Russian Military-Industrial Complex - Discussion at the Department of Economics,Russian Academy of Sciences
    - Russia Will Not Remain on the Sideline - by Academician Dmitry Lvov
    - How to Commercialize R&D - Seminar in Moscow
    - Russian and US Defence Expenditure Compared
    - ECAAR-US on the War in Yugoslavia
    - The War and the Collapse of the International Legal Order
    - Remembering Wassily Leontief - by James K. Galbraith
    - Excerpts from the ECAAR-US Newsletter