Argues that Moscow needs to drop the notion of creating an exclusive power centre out of the post-Soviet space. Dmitri Trenin's vision of Russia is an open Euro-Pacific country that is savvy in its use of soft power and fully reconciled with its former borderlands and dependents.

Dmitri Trenin is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. From 1993 to 1997, Trenin held posts as a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. He is the author of Getting Russia Right (2007), Russia's Restless Frontier: The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia (2004), and The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization (2002), all published by Carnegie.