The Foreign Service Journal, December 2003

n hindsight, September 2003 may seem like a high-water mark in the U.S.-Russia energy dialogue so trumpeted by both the Bush and Putin administrations. More than 250 American govern- ment officials and petroleum industry executives, headed by Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, showed up on Sept. 22-23 in St. Petersburg, President Putin’s hometown, then in the midst of its 300th-anniversary celebrations. The occasion was the second Commercial Energy Summit, which followed last year’s gathering in President Bush’s home state of Texas. The Americans were joined by an D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 31 T HE U.S.-R USSIA ENERGY PARTNERSHIP WAS LAUNCHED WITH GREAT FANFARE ONE YEAR AGO . I T ’ S TIME TO LOOK AT WHAT WE REALLY WANT , AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT . B Y E DWARD C. C HOW F O C U S O N W O R L D E N E R G Y I U.S.-R USSIA E NERGY D IALOGUE : P OLICY , P ROJECTS , OR P HOTO O P ? Josh Dorman