Thanks to our self-defeating foreign policy, these two mismatched powers are now strengthening relations on a global scale.
Analysis
Matt Purple: America: Too Weak To Rein In Its Own Empire?
Who’s really undermining deterrence here?
Patrick Buchanan: When Did Ukraine Become A ‘Critical Ally’?
On hearing the State Department’s George Kent and William Taylor describe President Donald Trump’s withholding of military aid to Ukraine, the New York Times summarized and solemnly endorsed their testimony: “What clearly concerned both witnesses wasn’t simply the abuse of power by the President, but the harm it inflicted on Ukraine, a critical ally, under constant assault by Russian forces.”
Jeremy Shapiro: The Future of U.S. Global Leadership
The central premise of the foreign policy establishment has long been that only the United States can lead the free world. But that assumption increasingly looks imperiled, most recently by the pandemic. What would foreign policy look like without it?
Beatrice Fihn: Universities Across America Profit From Developing Nuclear Weapons
Students and faculty now face a choice. They can become the next generation of weapons scientists. Or they can refuse to be complicit in this scheme, denying research partnerships or internships at nuclear weapons labs.
Carnegie Endowment: U.S.-Russian Relations in 2030
U.S.-Russian relations are at the lowest point since the Cold War. Almost all high-level dialogue between the two countries has been suspended. There are no signs that the relationship will improve in the near future.
Robert Wright: Impeachment should be about America first
Not everyone agrees that providing aid to Ukraine is in America’s interest.
Michael Tracey: George Kent’s Myth of Ukraine’s Modern-Day ‘Minutemen’
The commencement of public impeachment hearings this week may have been excruciatingly dull, but for the attentive observer one moment stood out.
Stephen Kinzer: The Curse Of The American Cassandras
By ignoring their warnings, we have brought a foreign policy mentality of conquest and domination back home.
Melvin A. Goodman: Meet Ukraine: America’s Newest “Strategic Ally”
NATO expansion has proven to be not only a major irritant in Russian-American relations, but the leading cause of what appears to be the start of a new Cold War.
Ed Lozansky: Geopolitical puzzles
U.N. General Assembly meeting is good time for Trump-Putin face-to-face.
Stephen F. Cohen: Why Are We in Ukraine?
Historically and even today, Russia has much in common with Ukraine – the United States, almost nothing.
Krystal Ball: Tulsi Gabbard surges, is she the most electable?
Hillary Clinton’s McCarthyite smear has redounded to the benefit of 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard.
Bonnie Kristian: Upcoming nuclear arms talks with Russia a chance to save key treaty
Senior American and Russian diplomats will converge in Vienna beginning June 22 for arms control negotiations – possibly, a State Department official told Bloomberg, even laying the groundwork to extend the New START deal set to expire in February.
Letter to Congressman Adam Schiff from Krishen Mehta
Dear Congressman Schiff,
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William S. Smith: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick: 30 Years Unheeded
The foreign policy establishment gives something like pariah status to arguments that we should negotiate better trade deals, reconsider our Cold War alliances and, most especially, subject American foreign policy to popular preferences
Katrina vanden Heuvel: From the hope of 1989 to a new Cold War
Support for a less adversarial U.S.-Russia relationship may not be popular. As I have argued in the past, though, it is sober realism.
Ronald Grigor Suny: Review Essay: Putin’s World
Deeply immersed in both the scholarly and policy worlds, Angela Stent is one of those itinerant experts who crosses the chasm between government and the academy.
Stephen F. Cohen and Aaron Mate: Ukrainegate impeachment saga worsens US-Russia Cold War
As the House opens impeachment hearings for President Trump, Professor Stephen F. Cohen warns that the US military assistance at the heart of Ukrainegate escalates the US-Russia Cold War.
Adrian Pabst: China, Russia and the return of the civilisational state
Such states define themselves not as nations but civilisations – in opposition to the liberalism and global market ideology of the West.