Russia and NATO after the Warsaw Summit
(RIAC) The NATO summit in Warsaw marked an important stage in the evolution of NATO countries’ military and political planning and in the evolution of the alliance as a whole.…
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Russia Wanders the War Zones and Political Badlands of the Middle East
(EDM) Russia’s military intervention in Syria is clearly not going well. Last Friday (July 8), another helicopter was reportedly shot down near Palmyra, and the Russian Ministry of Defense, after an…
Twenty-Five Years after the USSR: What’s Gone Wrong?
(Journal of Democracy) After a quarter-century, the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union looks like a de-democratizing event. Leading up to that fateful year, Mikhail Gorbachev had been one of the world’s…
Everyday Patriotism and Putin’s Foreign Policy
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Discussions of popular support for the Kremlin’s foreign policy often invoke common international relations concepts, like the “rally around the flag” effect, or suggest that the abundance…
Adviser Offers Glimpse of a Trump Administration’s Central Asia Policy
(Eurasianet) An adviser to American presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized United States policy in Central Asia as unnecessarily antagonistic, giving a rare glimpse into what a Trump presidency could mean…
Military Force: A Driver Aggravating Russia’s Decline
(EDM) Looking into the remaining years of the 2010s, it is only too obvious that decline is set to be the dominant trend in Russia, and it is easy to…
Kakachia: Expectations on fast track NATO integration created by the [Georgian] political elites did not materialize
(Huffington Post) Ex-Soviet Georgia could start a gradual drift back into the orbit of its former overlord Russia if it does not see tangible signs soon that it will be invited…
Brexit Won’t Solve Russia’s EU Problems
(Russia Direct) Given the state of Russian relations with the EU, it would not be a surprise if Moscow celebrated the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. The Brexit vote…
Doomed to Cooperate: US-Russian Lab-to-Lab Collaboration
(New Book) An account edited by Siegfried Hecker, Doomed to Cooperate tells the story of the collaboration through the words of American and Russian scientists who traveled to each other’s nuclear complexes…
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…