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About Wayne Merry

E. Wayne Merry is a Senior Associate at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. A former State Department and Pentagon official, he served in Moscow from 1980-83 and 1991-94. In 1995 he joined the staff of Secretary of Defense Perry as Regional Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia to develop defense relations with the states of the former Soviet Union. Thereafter he served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a bipartisan Congressional-Executive human rights monitoring body.

Articles by Wayne Merry

Wednesday 20th July

The crisis of Russian modernisation

departures Increasingly, the idea of being a modern Russian means to be detached from Russia itself. The problem has long, Soviet roots, and the ruling tandem acknowledges there is a problem. But are they capable of reversing the trend, wonders Wayne Merry ...
Monday 21st September

Rid Europe of ‘tac nukes’

After dropping the missile defence system in Eastern Europe, remaining American weapons in Europe should come next
Thursday 16th July

Obama in Moscow - perhaps a B-minus?

President Obama did not perform as well as expected during his recent visit to Moscow argues E. Wayne Merry
Friday 22nd May

Karabakh: is war inevitable?

Armenia and Azerbaijan's dispute over Nagorno Karabakh could erupt in war at any time, unless Washington and Moscow work together
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