Russia Chooses Autarchy—and Isolation—Over Cooperation

| William Courtney
William Courtney
Former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia and Kazakhstan

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The Author is William Courtney

William Courtney is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum.  In 2014 he retired from Computer Sciences Corporation (now CSRA) as senior principal for federal policy strategy. From 1972 through 1999, he was a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State. He co-chaired the U.S. delegation to the review conference that prepared for the 1999 Summit in Istanbul of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in... Read More

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