Abstract
During the late 1990s, two simultaneous conversations occurred on Capitol Hill. One focused on a proposed US anti-trafficking law, the other on the apparent failure of US assistance policies in the former Soviet Union. It is the synchrony of these two political conversations that operates as the catalyst for my work here. I ask: Why did US legislators' commitment in the late 1990s to halt human trafficking coincide with clashes over the apparent failure of US Russia policy? Through close textual analyses of a series of Congressional hearings on both issues, I argue that these two simultaneous conversations were co-constitutive and, consequently, reveal much about the gendered dynamics governing the review, creation and implementation of US Russia policy at the end of the first post-Soviet decade.
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