VOLUME 48 NUMBER 2, 2002

International Affairs

A Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations

In This Issue

On the Bush Administration Foreign Policy

Russia s Place in the World after September 11

Reality of Missile Nonproliferation

Balkan Factor and European Security

Korean Reconciliation and Russia s Interests

Slavery in the 21st Century

Recollections on a Meeting with Richard Nixon

BORIS PIADYSHEV Editor-in-Chief

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

IGOR' IVANOV Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia

ALEKSEI MESHKOV Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia

ALEXEI FEDOTOV Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia

SERGEI LAVROV Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN

ALEKSANDR DZASOKHOV President, Northern Ossetia Republic

SERGEI ORDZHONIKIDZE UN Under Secretary General, Director-General, UN Office at Geneva

VLADIMIR LUKIN Deputy Chairman of the State Duma

ANATOLII TORKUNOV Rector, Moscow State Institute of International Relations

YURI FOKINE Rector, Diplomatic Academy, MFA

TOGRULBAGIROV Head, Consultative Council under the Chariman of the RF Government

VLADIMIRCHIZHOV Department Director, MFA

VLADIMIRCHKHIKVISHVILI Department Director, MFA

ALEKSANDR IAKOVENKO Department Director, MFA

ALEKSANDRAVDEEV Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

VLADIMIRTITOV Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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