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Russia’s Use of Military Force as a Foreign Policy Tool: Is There a Logic?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia has used its military beyond its borders with unprecedented frequency in the period since the invasion of Crimea in February 2014. Depending on how one counts,…

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Charap: As Secretary of State, Clinton’s comments were seized upon by Russia; she became a convenient scapegoat

(Washington Post) Russian President Vladimir Putin repeatedly accused Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state of interfering in Moscow’s affairs — and if Russian security was behind last week’s…

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Charap: Russia is engaged in a new global Cold War against the U.S.

(Washington Post) The U.S.-Russia relationship is too big to fail, but it’s failing. The Obama administration came into office with a big idea about this relationship: that these two world powers…

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Charap: Normalizing relations with Russia has been a personal foreign policy priority of Japan’s prime minster

(FT) For 17 years, until 2014, the G7 was the G8. In a goodwill gesture to post-communist Russia, the Group of Seven industrialised democracies invited Russian president Boris Yeltsin to attend…

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US-Russian relations: The middle cannot hold

(Routledge) (Co-authored with J. Shapiro) The Obama administration has stated its intention to avoid a new Cold War, but it has also demonstrated little interest in addressing the core issue in…

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Charap: Putin’s objective was to force US and allies to the bargaining table on his terms; he achieved that

(U.S. News & World Report) WASHINGTON — In a surprise move that he said he hoped would bolster Syria peace talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would start to…

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The Right Way to Think About the Syria Talks

(Foreign Affairs) (Co-authored with Jeremy Shapiro) The suspension of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva seemed to validate observers’ cynicism and pessimism in the run-up to the negotiations. The talks, naysayers argue,…

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The United States and Russia after the Ukraine crisis: three scnenarios

The Center for the National Interest recently published a report, "The United States and Russia after the Ukraine crisis: Three Scenarios," with chapters by Samuel Charap, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and Matthew…

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The danger of Russian and Turkish competitive machismo in Syria

(Brookings) (Co-authored with Jeremy Shapiro) The downing of a Russian jet by Turkish fighters has brought the dangers posed by Moscow's intervention in Syria into sharp relief. While the Russian…

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The Ghost of Hybrid War

(IISS) Following Moscow's invasion of Crimea and support for the insurgency in eastern Ukraine, the concept of 'hybrid war' has emerged as a catch-all description for the new Russian threat…

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Russia’s Use of Military Force as a Foreign Policy Tool: Is There a Logic?

Charap: As Secretary of State, Clinton’s comments were seized upon by Russia; she became a convenient scapegoat

Charap: Russia is engaged in a new global Cold War against the U.S.

Charap: Normalizing relations with Russia has been a personal foreign policy priority of Japan’s prime minster

US-Russian relations: The middle cannot hold

Charap: Putin’s objective was to force US and allies to the bargaining table on his terms; he achieved that

The Right Way to Think About the Syria Talks

The United States and Russia after the Ukraine crisis: three scnenarios

The danger of Russian and Turkish competitive machismo in Syria

The Ghost of Hybrid War