Diplomacy
At the Head of the Table: The Year Russia Chaired the G8
In 2006, Russia for the first time — and, as it turned out, the only time — assumed the presidency of the G8, the club of the world’s leading industrial democracies. The culmination of the year was the July summit of leaders in Strelna outside St Petersburg: a country that fifteen years earlier had stood on the other side of the world’s great divide was setting the agenda for the most prestigious forum on the planet.
Everything but Institutions: The Four Common Spaces of Russia and Europe
In 2003, Russia and the EU agreed on four common spaces — integration without membership. Prodi’s formula: everything but institutions.
A Weekend at Camp David: The Tieless Diplomacy of 2003
Six months after their quarrel over Iraq, Bush hosted Putin at his private retreat. That said more about the relationship than any communiqué.
The First Call: How Russia Backed America After 9/11
On 11 September 2001, the first leader to reach the White House was the president of Russia. So began the closest period of Moscow–Washington cooperation since the Second World War.