Russia in Global Affairs

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Koji Watanabe

13.10.2006

There is no denying that the Cold War left a legacy of suspicion which can all too easily, albeit irrationally, be reawakened. Responsible leaders should refrain from playing on that legacy and reopening old wounds. Paranoia makes bad policy. If, as it seems, we have entered a period of turbulence, there will be a need to exercise restraint, built on the many things which bind us together, and focus clearly on our long-term goals and best interests.

Roderic Lyne, Strobe Talbott, Koji Watanabe

Christopher Weafer

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06.12.2014

South Stream Cancellation Hits Europe Hardest

Russia's plan to build the South Stream natural gas pipeline to Europe was a bad commercial decision

Christopher Weafer

Yuval Weber

Associate professor at the School of World Economics and International Relations at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics.

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30.03.2016

To Harass and Wait Out

U.S.-Russian relations begin to resemble the Cold War, as the U.S. institutes containment policies in preparation for a long-term showdown. The issue then becomes who can hold out longer to demonstrate the resolve necessary to get the other side to back down.

Andrej Krickovic, Yuval Weber

Alexander Webster

Ph.D., Chaplain (Colonel), U.S. Army (Retired) is Dean and Professor of Moral Theology at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (ROCOR).

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11.10.2020

“We need a ‘prophecy option’”

We have existed for 2000 years. We have survived, sometimes in small numbers and sometimes in great numbers, every kind of political totalitarianism that the world could throw at us: from Roman emperors to invading Huns, and, in later centuries, totalitarianism of the far right and the far left. And we Orthodox believers didn’t really change anything.

Alexander Webster

Richard Weitz

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute, USA

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07.07.2017

Without ‘Deliverables,’ Putin-Trump Meeting Unlikely To Be Productive

Ahead of the first meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

Richard Weitz

29.04.2016

The Iranian Deal: Opportunities and Obstacles for Russian-US Cooperation

On July 14, 2015, the United States, Russia, China, France, UK, Germany, the European Union and Iran concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the “Iran deal,” with the goal of ending the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program.

Andrey A. Baklitskiy, Richard Weitz

Cory Welt

Cory Welt is Associate Director and Associate Research Professor of International Affairs at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School.

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26.06.2015

Policy Choices: Motifs and Unintended Consequences

Russian foreign policy in the Putin era has drawn particular attention, and even praise, from the realist school of international relations scholars. John J. Mearsheimer, for example, has written that “Putin and his compatriots have been thinking and acting according to realist dictates” in their policy towards Ukraine.

Samuel Charap, Cory Welt

Christian Whiton

Senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest. He was a U.S. State Department senior advisor during the George W. Bush and Trump administrations.

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08.11.2022

End of Superpower Monopoly Can Be Good For America

It would be a mistake to bet against America even as its unipolar margin of error declines. For one, the country is in far better shape than Europe and will likely liberalize energy production after the Biden administration ends.

Christian Whiton

Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson is a Reader in Ukrainian Studies at University College London and a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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03.05.2014

A new (failing) state or more of the same?

Ukraine is a state in political turmoil. But how much of this is the fault of separatists in the east and how much comes from 'business-as-usual' corruption from the Kyiv government?

Andrew Wilson, Oleksandr Andreyev

25.03.2012

Between Adolescence and Adulthood

Ukraine is always said to be at a “crossroads.” It has so many existential dilemmas of national identity and foreign policy direction. But this time its partners are demanding answers and its options really are narrowing. It is in danger of becoming a dysfunctional semi-autocracy and a double periphery rather than a mutual neighborhood.

Andrew Wilson