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MagnifyGail W. Lapidus, PhD
Professor of Political Science, Emerita; CISAC Faculty Member; FSI Senior Fellow, Emerita
CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, C236
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
Research Interests
ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union; the Russian-Chechen war; Soviet society, politics and foreign policy
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Working Papers
Reports
- Workshop on Regime Transitions from Communist Rule in Comparative Perspective
Michael A. McFaul, Gail W. Lapidus, Larry Diamond
(2003)
- Preventing Deadly Conflict: Strategies and Institutions
Gail W. Lapidus, Svetlana Tsalik
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1998)
- Nationalism, Ethnic Identity and Conflict Management in Russia Today
Gail W. Lapidus, Renee de Nevers, Leokadia Drobizheva, Airat Aklaev, Victoria Koroteyeva, Galina Soldatova, Svetlana Ryzhova, Tamara Guzenkova, Alexander Korostelev
CISAC (1995) - The Structural Context of Soviet Ethno-Nationalism
Gail W. Lapidus
Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory vol. 20, 5 (1991)
Journal Articles
- Between Assertiveness and Insecurity: Russian Elite Attitudes and the Russia-Georgia Crisis
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 23, 2 (2007) 
War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building Under Putin, The
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 20, 1 (2004)
Putin's War on Terrorism: Lessons From Chechnya
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 18, 1 (2002)- Assymetrical Federalism and Russian State-Building
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs (formerly Soviet Economy). Article republished in "Federalism in Russia" by Kazan Inst of Federalism, Tatarstan, 2002 vol. 15 (1999) - Rethinking Sovereignty: Chechnya and Kosovo
Gail W. Lapidus
Kosmopolis (Moscow) (1999) 
Six Years After the Collapse of the USSR
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 14, 1 (1998)
Contested Sovereignty: The Tragedy of Chechnya
Gail W. Lapidus
International Security vol. 23, 1 (1998)- Gorbachev and the "National Question": Restructuring the Soviet Federation
Gail W. Lapidus
Soviet Economy vol. 5 (1989)
Books & Book Chapters
Transforming the "National Question": New Approaches to Nationalism, Federalism and Sovereignty
Gail W. Lapidus, Archie Brown
Palgrave Macmillan in "The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia" (2004)
Russia's Transformation and American Policy
Gail W. Lapidus, Robert J. Lieber
Prentice Hall, in "Eagle Rules? Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century" (2002)
Accommodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Gail W. Lapidus, Crawford Young, Mark Beissinger
Woodrow Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins University Press in "Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective" (2002)
State-Building and State Breakdown in Russia
Gail W. Lapidus, Archie Brown
Oxford University Press in "Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader" (2001)
Russia's Second Chechen War: Ten Assumptions in Search of a Policy
Gail W. Lapidus
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm) (2000)
The War in Chechnya: Opportunities Missed, Lessons to be Learned
Gail W. Lapidus
Rowman and Littlefield (1999)
Dynamics of Secession in the Russian Federation: Why Chechnya?, in Stephen Hanson and Mikhail Alexseev, A Federation Imperiled: Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia, The
Gail W. Lapidus
Palgrave-MacMillan in "Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia", ed. M. Alexseev. (1999)- Gender i perestroika: vliianie perestroiki i ee posledstvii na zhenshchin, in Valery Tishkov, ed., Sem'ia, gender, kultura
Gail W. Lapidus
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) (1997) - The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse
Gail W. Lapidus, Alexander Dallin
Westview Press (1995) 
Nationalism, Regionalism and Federalism: Dilemmas of State-Building in Post-Communist Russia
Gail W. Lapidus, Edward W. Walker
Westview Press in "The New Russia: Troubled Transformation" (1994)
New Russia: Troubled Transformation, The
Gail W. Lapidus
Westview Press (1994)
Gender and Restructuring: Perestroika and Soviet Women
Gail W. Lapidus
Clarendon Press in "Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies", Valentine Moghadam, ed (1993)- Ethnonationalism and Political Stability: The Soviet Case
Gail W. Lapidus
Westview Press in "The Soviet Nationality Reader: The Disintegration in Context (1992) - From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics
Gail W. Lapidus, Victor Zaslavsky, Philip Goldman
Cambridge University Press (1992) - The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow
Gail W. Lapidus, Andrei Melville
Westview Press (1990) - Demise of Russian Federalism? California and Tatarstan, The
Gail W. Lapidus
Institute of Federalism, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation