Obama’s Quiet Offensive
(Project Syndicate) (Co-authored with Lee Feinstein) The most significant outcome of US President Barack Obama's visit to Europe last week was his announcement that the United States and its European…
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Гарань: Аннексия Крыма приведет к холодной войне XXI века
Россия, возможно, сохранит «замороженный» статус Крыма и не пойдет на его аннексию после сегодняшнего референдума, 16 марта. Об этом Сегодня.ua сказал профессор политологии Киево-Могилянской академии Алексей Гарань. «Сейчас есть два…
Policy Memo: Central Asian Military and Security Forces: Assessing the Impact of Foreign Assistance
As the drawdown of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan has accelerated in preparation for the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2014, media attention has come to focus on…
Andrew Kuchins on Potential Fighter Jet Contract Between Russia and Brazil
(FOX News Latino) “The Russians are very aggressively trying to expand into every market they can with their arms,” said Andrew Kuchins, the director of the Russia and Eurasia Program…
The China Factor in U.S.-Russia Relations
There is a surprising lack of substantive discussion within U.S. and Russian policymaking communities on the influence of China on U.S.-Russia relations. After several influential books and journal articles on…
Russia in a Sea of Rising Powers: The View from Washington, D.C.
Since the start of the 2000s, it has become commonplace to speak of the so-called “Rise of the Rest.”[1] This theme skyrocketed after the global financial crisis of 2008-9, which…
Beyond the Russian Reset
(The National Interest) With the recent downturn in U.S.-Russian relations, observers in both Washington and Moscow have remarked upon the cyclical nature of this key bilateral relationship. As Fyodor Lukyanov,…
The Bane of Palestinian Infighting
(New York Times) The resignation of two Palestinian prime ministers in quick succession has left the Palestinian Authority leadership in limbo even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry seeks to…
Ukraine and the United States: Assessing their Relationship on the Eve of Elections
With important elections looming on the horizon for both Ukraine and the United States, it is a convenient moment to assess U.S.-Ukrainian bilateral relations. Between the two, elections in the…
The Syrian Civil War: Transition without Intervention?
The events of summer 2012 marked an important shift in the Syrian crisis. On July 15, the International Committee of the Red Cross classified the conflict as a civil war,…