Dr. Michael A. McFaul
Publications
Books and Monographs | Short Monographs | Edited Volumes | Academic Articles | Book Chapters | Other Articles and Public Policy Essays | Joint-authored Policy Papers | Published Working Papers and Reports | Testimony
Books and Monographs
Short Monographs
Breakthrough or Breakdown? The Future of Democracy in Ukraine, (Washington: National Endowment of Democracy, 2003) 80 pages.
U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya (Washington: Twentieth Century Foundation, March 2003), 60 pages.
Russia Between Elections: What the 1995 Parliamentary Elections Really Mean, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1996) 80 pages.
Understanding Russia's 1993 Parliamentary Elections: Implications for American Foreign Policy, Essays in Public Policy, (Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1994), 55 pages.
Edited Volumes
With Kathryn Stoner Weiss, After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). This book includes three chapters written or co-authored by McFaul.
Civil Society in Russia, special double issue edition of Demokratizatsiya, Spring and Summer 2002. (under review for publication as a book).
with Andrei Ryabov, and Nikolai Petrov, Rossiiya v izbiratel'nom tsikle: 1999-2000 godov, (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2000) 615 pages.
with Andrei Ryabov, and Nikolai Petrov, Primer on Russia’s 1999 Duma Elections (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999) 153 pages. Also published in Russian.
with Andrei Ryabov, Rossiiskoe Obshchestvo: Stanovlenie Demokraticheskikh Tsennostei? [Russian Society: The Formation of Democratic Values?], (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1999) 239 pages.
with Nikolai Petrov, Politicheskii Al'manakh Rossii 1989-1997 [Political Almanac of Russia, 1989-1997] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1998), second edition, 1,700 pages.
with Andrei Ryabov, Formirovanie Partiino-Politicheskoi Systemi v Rossii [Formation of the Political Party System in Russia] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1997) 156 pages.
with Nikolai Petrov, Parliamentskie Vybory 1995 Goda v Rossii [1995 Parliamentary Elections in Russia] (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 1996), 105 pages.
with Nikolai Petrov, Previewing Russia's 1995 Parliamentary Elections, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 1995), 300 pages.
with Tova Perlmutter, eds., Privatization, Conversion, and Enterprise Reform in Russia, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 228 pages.
with Sergei Bogolyubov, Pravo i Mnogopartiinost' v Rossii [Law and Multipartyism in Russia], (Moskva: Yustitsinform, 1994), 128 pages.
Can the Russian Military-Industrial Complex Be Privatized? (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1993), in English and Russian, 60 pages.
Academic Articles
"Retrospective Voting in Putin’s Russia," (with Henry Hale), Post-Soviet Affairs, forthcoming.
"Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us," (With Nikolai Petrov) Journal of Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 3 (July 2004), pp. 20-31.
"Russian Democracy Under Putin," (with Timothy J. Colton) Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July-August 2003) pp. 12-21.
"Generational Change in Russia," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 2003) pp. 64-78.
"Are Russians Undemocratic?" (with Timothy Colton) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 2 (April-June 2002), pp. 91-121. Published in Russian as Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya i sotsial’nye peremeny, No. 54 (54), July-August 2001, pp. 13-26.
"Introduction: Russian Civil Society," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2002), pp. 109-116.
"The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World," World Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (January 2002) pp. 212-244.
"Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: A Mixed Record, an Uncertain Future," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 4 (October 2001) pp. 87-94. Republished in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy after Communism, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), pp. 262-270.
"Explaining Party Emergence and Non-Emergence in Post-Communist Russia: Institutions, Agents, and Chance," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 34, No. 10 (December 2001), pp. 1159-1187.
"'Managed Democracy' in Russia: Putin and the Press (with Masha Lipman) Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 2001) pp. 117-128.
"The Liberal Core and Realist Periphery in Europe," (with Jim Goldgeier), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2001) pp. 1-26.
"Reinventing Russia's Party of Power: "Unity and the 1999 Duma Election," (with Timothy Colton) Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer 2000) pp. 201-224.
"Russia Under Putin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2000) 19-33. Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., The Global Diversity of Democracy. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001); and Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Democracy after Communism, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), pp. 179-193.
"Authoritarian and Democratic Responses to Financial Meltdown in Russia," Problems of Post-Communism, July/August 1999, pp. 22-32.
"Lessons from Russia's Protracted Transition from Communist Rule," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 114, No. 1 (Spring 1999) pp. 103-130. Reprinted in Demetrios James Carley, ed., Democracy at Home and Abroad, (New York: Academy of Politics Science, 2000).
"What Went Wrong in Russia? The Perils of a Protracted Transition," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 1999) pp. 4-18. Reprinted in Russian as "Onasnosti Zatyanyvshegosya Perekhodnogo Perioda," Pro et Contra, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1999) pp. 175-190.
"Institutional Design, Uncertainty, and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases from Russia," Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March 1999) pp. 27-52.
"Russia's "Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation," Part II, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer 1998), pp. 219-236.
"Russia's "Privatized' State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation," Part I, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 25-33.
"The Precarious Peace: Domestic Politics in the Making of Russian Foreign Policy," International Security, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 5-35.
"Russian Electoral Politics after Transition: Regional and National Assessments," (with Nikolai Petrov), Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, Vol. 38, No. 9 (November 1997), pp. 507-549.
"Russia's 1996 Presidential Elections," Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 4, (October-December 1996), pp. 318-350.
"The Allocation of Property Rights in Russia: The First Round," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 1996), pp. 1-22.
"Russia Between Elections: The Vanishing Center," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 7, No. 2, (April 1996), pp. 90-104.
"State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia," World Politics, Vol. 47, No. 2, (January 1995), pp. 210-243. Reprinted in Vincent Wright and Luisa Perrotti, eds. Privatization and Public Policy (London: Edward Elgar, 2000).
"Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Explaining the Vote," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 5, No. 2, (April 1994).
"Osmyslenie Parliamenskikh Vyborov 1993 g. v Rossii," [Explaining the 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Russia], Part Two, Polis, Vol. 23, No. 6, (1994), pp. 179-185.
"Osmyslenie Parliamenskikh Vyborov 1993 g. v Rossii," [Explaining the 1993 Parliamentary Elections in Russia], Part One, Polis, Vol. 23, No. 5, (1994), pp. 124-139.
"Russian Centrism and Revolutionary Transitions" Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 4, (July-September 1993), pp. 196-222.
"Russia at the Crossroads: Democrats in Disarray" Journal of Democracy, Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 1993), pp. 17-29.
"A Tale of Two Worlds: Core and Periphery in the Post-Cold War Era," (with James M. Goldgeier), International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 467-491. Reprinted in Kay Knickrehm, ed., Toward the 21st Century: A Reader in World Politics, (New York: Prentice Hall, 1994).
"Russia's Emerging Political Parties," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 1. (January 1992), pp. 25-40.
"The Demise of the World Revolutionary Process: Soviet-Angolan Relations Under Gorbachev," Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3, (March 1990), pp. 165-189.
"Rethinking the `Reagan Doctrine' in Angola," International Security, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Winter 1989/90), pp. 99-135.
Book Chapters
"Elections," in Richard Sakwa and Stephen White eds., Developments in Russian Politics, 6th edition, (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
"Mezhdu demokratiei i diktaturoi," in Andre Kuchins and Dmitri Trenin, eds., Rossiya: blizhaishee desyatiletie," (Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2004) pp. 44-49.
"Yeltsin’s Russia," in Ronald Suny, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. III, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
"Putin and Democratization" (with Timothy Colton) in Dale Herspring, ed., The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003) pp. 13-38.
"Putin and the Media" (with Masha Lipman) in Dale Herspring, ed., in Dale Herspring, ed., The Putin Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003) pp. 63-84.
"Individuals Matter: Yeltsin’s Role in Destroying Communism," in Condoleezza Rice and Kiron Skinner, eds., Turning Points in the Ending of the Cold War, (Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, 2003).
"Evaluating Yeltsin and his Revolution," in Andrew Kuchins, ed., Russia After the Fall (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002) pp. 21-38.
"Russian Electoral Trends," in Zoltan Borany, ed., Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 19-63.
"The Sovereignty 'Script': The Red Book for Russia's Revolutionaries," in Stephen Krasner, ed., Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities,(New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 194-223.
"Realistic Engagement" and "Democracy Assistance," both in Tom Carothers et. al., A New Agenda in U.S.-Russian Relations (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).
"Far East Challenges to Russian Federalism: Myths and Realities," in Sherman Garnett, Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russian-Chinese Relations in a Changing Asia, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000) pp. 313-346.
"Reform during Revolution," forward to Yegor Gaidar, Days: Tragedies and Triumphs, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999) pp. ix-xix.
"The Political Economy of Social Policy Reform in Russia: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests," in Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Mitchell Ornstein, and Linda Cook, eds., Left Parties and Social Policy in Post-Communist Europe, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999) pp. 207-234.
"The Changing Function of Elections in Russian Politics," (with Nikolai Petrov) in Anders Aslund and Martha Olcott, eds., Russia After Communism, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999) pp. 27-60.
"Russia's Choice: The Perils of Revolutionary Democracy," in Timothy Colton and Jerry Hough, eds., Growing Pains: Russian Democracy and the Elections of 1993, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998) pp. 115-140.
"Russia" in Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1995-1996 (New York: Transaction Book, 1997), pp. 14-25.
"American Policy Towards Russia: Framework for Analysis and Guide to Action," in The United States and Russia into the 21st Century (Carlisle, PA: United States Army War College, 1997), pp. 39-70.
"Russian Economic Interest Groups: Winners and Losers in the Politics of Economic Reform" in David Bernstein, ed., Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1997), pp. 219-234.
"Russia's Rough Ride," in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp. 64-94.
"Revolutionary Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Defining a Post-Communist Research Agenda," in David Holloway and Norman Naimark, eds., Reexamining the Soviet Experience: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 167-196.
"Revolutionary Ideas, State Interests, and Russian Foreign Policy," in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), pp. 27-52.
"Rossiiskii Elektorat v 1993: Motivatsiya Vybora," [Russian Electorate in 1993: Electoral Motivations], (with Vladimir Bokser and Vasilii Ostashev) in Analiz Elektorata Politicheskikh Sil Rossii, (Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center, 1995), pp. 92-110.
"Demilitarization and Defense Conversion," (with David Holloway) in Gail Lapidus, ed., The New Russia, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 193-222.
"Privatization at Four Enterprises," in David Bernstein, ed., Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia: Case Studies and Analysis, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1994), pp. 111-136.
"Impuls," (with Elaine Naugle and Tova Perlmutter) and "The Machinostroenie Enterprise," (with Jeffrey Lehrer and Tova Perlmutter) in Bernstein, ed., Defense Industry Restructuring in Russia, pp. 45-58 and pp. 59-78.
"Agency Problems in the Privatization of Large Enterprises in Russia," in Michael McFaul and Tova Perlmutter, eds., Privatization, Conversion, and Enterprise Reform, pp. 39-56.
"Party Formation after Revolutionary Transitions: The Russian Case", in Alexander Dallin, ed., Political Parties in Russia, (Berkeley, CA: International and Area Studies, 1993), pp. 7-28.
"The Dynamics of Change in Russia and the Former Soviet Union" in Michael Klare and Daniel Thomas, eds., World Security: Challenges for a New Century, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), pp. 63-84.
Other Articles and Public Policy Essays
"Democracy Promotion as a World Value," The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter 2004-2005) pp. 147-163.
"Reengaging Russia: A New Agenda," Current History, (October 2004) pp. 307-313. "The Second Russian Revolution," Russia Business Watch, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2003), pp. 3-8.
"George W. Bush and Russia," (with James Goldgeier) Current History, Vol. 101, No. 657 (October 2002), pp. 313-324. Reprinted in Helen Purkitt, ed., World Politics 03/04 (Guildlford, Conn.: McGraw Hill/Duskin, 2003).
"The Liberty Doctrine: Reclaiming the Purpose of American Power," Policy Review, No. 112 (April/May 2002) pp. 3-24. Republished in Glenn Hastedt, ed., American Foreign Policy 03/04 Guildlford, Conn.: McGraw Hill/Duskin, 2003) pp. 24-33.
"America’s Real Russian Allies," (with Timothy Colton) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 6 (November/December 2001), pp. 1-13.
"Preventive Defense in Central Asia," (with Linda McGinnis) National Security Studies Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Autumn 2001), pp. 123-130.
"Realistic Engagement: A New Approach to American-Russian Relations," Current History, Vol. 100, No. 648 (October 2001) pp. 313-322.
"Can Russians Be Democrats and Capitalists at the Same Time?" Russia Business Watch, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 2001) pp. 3-7.
"Between Two Extremes" (U.S.-Russian relations) Northwestern Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3 (Summer 2001) pp. 33-44.
"The Power of Putin," Current History (October 2000) pp. 307-314.
"Russian Democracy -- A U.S. National Security Interest," (with Sarah Mendelson) Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2000) pp. 330-353.
"Yeltsin's Legacy," The Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2000) pp. 42-58.
"Russia’s 1999 Parliamentary Elections: Party Consolidation and Fragmentation," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 2000) pp. 5-23.
"Russia's Stalled Democracy," Special Feature, The World and I (March 2000) pp. 16-29.
"Nobody Lost Russia," Blueprint (Winter 2000) pp. 44-47.
"Russia Democracy: Still Not a Lost Cause, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 161-172.
"Getting Russia Right," Foreign Policy (Winter 1999-2000) pp. 58-73.
"Russia’s Many Foreign Policies," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 393-412.
"Foreign Policy in Russia after the Kosovo Crisis," Oxford International Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 1999) pp. 15-25.
"Russia’s Summer of Discontent," Current History (October 1998) pp. 307-312.
"Refocusing American Policy towards Russia: Theory and Practice," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 1998) pp. 326-346.
"Democracy Unfolds in Russia" Current History, Vol. 96, No. 612 (October 1997) pp. 319-325. Reprinted in Christian Soe, ed., Comparative Politics 1998/99, (Guilford: CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1998).
"Russia: Transition without Consolidation," Freedom Review, Vol. 28, No.1 (January 1997), pp. 38-57.
"Russian Politics After Chechnya," Foreign Policy, No. 99 (Summer 1995), pp. 149-165.
"Why Russia's Politics Matter," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January/February 1995), pp. 87-99.
"Russian Politics: The Calm Before the Storm?" Current History, Vol. 93, No. 585 (October 1994). Reprinted in Christian Soe, ed., Comparative Politics 1995/96, (New York: McGraw-Hill 1996).
"Thwarting the Specter of Russian Fascism," Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1993), pp. 1-19.
"Moscow's Drama: A View From Below," Freedom Review, Vol. 22, No. 6 (November/December 1991).
"Social Democrats and Republicans Attempt to Merge," Report on the USSR, (Munich) Vol. 3, No. 3, (January 21, 1991).
"Last Hurrah for the CPSU" in Report on the USSR, Vol. 2, No. 30 (July 27, 1990).
Joint-authored Policy Papers
(with several others) On the Brink: Weak States and US National Security (Washington: Center for Global Development, June 8, 2004).
(with several others) Democracy and Human Development in the Broader Middle East: A Transatlantic Strategy for Partnership, Istanbul Papers No. 1 (Washington: German Marshal Fund and Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, June 2004).
(with several others) Progressive Internationalism: A Democratic National Security Strategy, (Washington: Progressive Policy Institute, October 30, 2003).
Published Working Papers and Reports
"Promoting Democracy in Iran: A New American Strategy," (with Abbas Milani and Larry Diamond), summer 2004.
Generational Change in Russia, CSIS Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Working Paper No. 21 (October 2002), pp. 1-17.
(with Timothy Colton) Are Russians Undemocratic? Working Papers, No. 20 (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001).
"The United States and Russia: Partners or Competitors?" Policy Bulletin, The Stanley Foundation, October 2001.
Party Formation and Non-Formation in Russia, Working Papers, No. 12 (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 2000) pp. 1-31.
"Russian Reforms Under Siege," in Dick Clark, ed., U.S. Relations with the Successor States of the former Soviet Union, (Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 1998) pp. 5-12.
Uncertainty, Institutional Design and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases from Russia," Working Paper, No. 7, (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies, 1998), pp. 1-29.
When Capitalism and Democracy Collide in Transition, Working Paper, No. 1, (Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies, 1997), pp. 1-37.
"The Domestic Politics of NATO Expansion in Russia: Implication for American Foreign Policy," in Coit Blacker, Ashton Carter, Warren Christopher, David Hamburg, William Perry, NATO After Madrid: Looking to the Future, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1997).
The December 1995 Parliamentary Elections in the Russian Federation: Pre-Election Report (Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute, December 1, 1995), 70 pages.
The Causes and Consequences for the 'End of Market Romanticism' in Russia: Towards a Political Economy of Russia's Transition, Working Paper, (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1994).
Industrial Demilitarization, Privatization, Economic Reform, and Investment in Russia, (with David Bernstein) working paper, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1993).
NDI Pre-Election Report: The December 1993 Elections in the Russian Federation, (Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute, November 23, 1993). 55 pages.
All Power to the Soviets? An Assessment of Local Government in the Soviet Union, (Washington, D.C.: National Democratic Institute, Spring 1991).
Contributor to collectively authored report edited by John Harvey and Uziel Rubin, Ballistic Missile Proliferation in the Developing World, (Stanford: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1991).
Co-author, U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Space (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-TM-STI-27, July 1985).
Testimony
"Russia’s Transition to Democracy and U.S.-Russia Relations: Unfinished Business" Subcommittee on Europe, House Committee on International Relations, United States Congress, September 30, 2003.
"U.S.-Russian Relations after September 11th," testimony prepared for the Subcommittee on Europe, House Committee on International Relations, United States Congress, February 27, 2002. Published in Russian on strana.ru.
"Russia After the 2000 Presidential Election," testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 12, 2000.
"What Are Russian Foreign Policy Objectives?" testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, United States Congress, May12, 1999.
"Russia's Bumpy Road to Democracy," testimony before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress, July 10, 1996.