The US Election and the Ukraine Connection
(PS) (Co-authored by Timothy J. Colton) Donald Trump has officially been inaugurated as US president, but questions about Russia’s interference in the election will not go away. Yet one key…
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Sushko: Ukraine cannot carry on in the same rut
(ECFR) Ukraine's prospects are under threat from developments on both sides of the Atlantic. Something is stirring in Ukraine. The most obvious cause is Donald Trump’s imminent inauguration on 20…
Herron: When we are casting our ballot, we see the candidate names, but in fact we’re voting for Electors
(Exponent Telegram) Something a lot of people might not realize is that residents aren’t directly voting for president, and most Americans never will actually vote for president. Instead, they’re voting…
What happens if a U.S. presidential candidate withdraws (or dies) before the election is over?
(Washington Post) As I was wrapping up a phone call with my mother recently, she mentioned she had just one more question for me: Exactly what happens if a U.S. presidential…
Latest Kerry-Lavrov Deal on Syria Destined to Unravel
(EDM) The agreement on managing the Syrian civil war, reached between the United States and Russia in Geneva in the early hours of Saturday, September 10, was both surprising and…
Can the U.S.-Russia ‘Reset’ Survive Russia’s Presidential Election?
(CAP) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is poised to win the Russian presidential election this Sunday despite the rise of an unprecedented protest movement against him. The prospect of Putin’s…
A More Proactive U.S. Approach to the Georgia Conflicts
New Publication & Event Recap Cory Welt, Associate Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School, and Samuel Charap, Associate Director for…
Manas Revisited
The situation around the fueling contract for the Manas Air Transit Center continues to involve the highest levels of government in both the United States and Kyrgyzstan. A new…
In Focus: Can the Reset Change Russia?
Samuel Charap of the Center for American Progress argues in a July 23 Washington Post op-ed (“U.S. Needs to Carefully Plot Engagement with Russia”) that civil society “still plays a…
In Focus: Is It Time to Take Seriously Joint Missile Defense?
In a July 21 op-ed in the International Herald Tribune (“All Together Now: Missile Defense”) former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative), former Russian Foreign…