(FRANCE 24 Interview/Video) Alexander Cooley provides insights on the China-Russia gas deal, the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, the Eurasian Union, and the Kremlin's geopolitical objectives. Cooley said, "Russia is 100% trying to be a revisionist power" and that "the reality is that the Siberian gas is 'stranded gas,' it was never meant to be piped to Europe."
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Alexander Cooley is a member of PONARS Eurasia, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College at Columbia University, and has written extensively on former Soviet States, Central Asia, Ukraine, and Russia.