More hysteria from the Henry Jackson Society, which, as Paul Robinson observes, isn’t the sort of place you should visit if you want to be well informed about Russia.
Analysis
Alexey Khlebnikov: A Russian Pivot to Asia?
Can Moscow balance the search for new partners in Asia while maintaing its existing relationship with the West?
L. Todd Wood: The drive to expand NATO is insanity
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in the late 1940s to confront Soviet communist expansion in Europe and to protect Western civilization and freedom. NATO today, of course, has become something else entirely. So I am going to ask the really difficult question: Why is the NATO alliance still expanding? Stop it. This is insanity.
David Hendrickson: We Need a ‘New Internationalism’
Patrick Lawrence speaks to David Hendrickson of Colorado College, author most recently of Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition.
Lyle Goldstein: Why America Can’t Play Russia off Against China
Moscow’s commentators appraise Bolton’s Kremlin visit.
In Germany, a call for a new initiative for arms control and disarmament.
Former leaders of the SPD issued a statement last week…”If we cannot stop this looming nuclear spiral now, Europe, and Germany, will be the setting of this contest again. It is hard to imagine a more important question to us then the question how to prevent a renewed nuclear arms race in Europe.”
Zach Battat: Gaming the Syrian Endgame
Whether Moscow and Tehran want Assad in power over the long run is difficult to assess, but both countries understand that there is no serious alternative in the short run.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev: Here’s What’s Really Going on with the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and Russia
History, doctrine, and religious life all matter and cannot be ignored.
Nicolai N. Petro: IN UKRAINE, IS CONSTANTINOPLE RUSHING IN “WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD”?
On the eve of national elections in 2019, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has set himself the ambitious task of dismantling the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an autonomous and self-administered part of the Russian Orthodox Church, and creating a new, single national church out of the many Christian denominations in his country.
Stephen F. Cohen: Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy?
In conversation with John Batchelor, Professor Cohen summarizes one of the themes in his new book, War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate, by arguing that Russiagate allegations of Kremlin attempts to “undermine American democracy” may themselves erode confidence in American institutions.
Ted Galen Carpenter: Washington Smothers Independent European Security Initiatives
North Atlantic Treaty Organization defenders on both sides of the Atlantic repeatedly express harsh criticism of President Donald Trump for supposedly undermining the transatlantic alliance.
Michael Klare: The new global tinderbox: It’s not your mother’s Cold War
Is a nuclear World War III preventable? Yes, but only if preventing it becomes a central, common objective of our moment. And time is already running out.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Trump Is Pushing the World Closer to Nuclear Peril
It is not too late to end this dangerous status quo. Let’s demand a better future, one that is free from nuclear weapons.
Anatol Lieven: New Cold War: NATO Washes the Car
For many years, it has been a standard trope of liberal writing on hostilities between nations and ethnicities that these are not rooted either in inherited conflicts or real contemporary clashes of interest but are rather “constructed” by wicked political elites to serve their own political and economic ends.
Steven Pifer: After INF, is New START next to go?
Once the INF Treaty lapses, only one agreement will remain to constrain U.S. and Russian nuclear forces: the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
Paul Robinson Reviews ‘Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria’
Russophobia – literally, fear of Russia, but more commonly understood as dislike or hatred of Russia – is not a new phenomenon.
Aaron Mate: With Just Days to the Midterms, Russiagate Is MIA
The upcoming midterms are widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency, but its defining issue to date is notably MIA.
Steven E. Miller: Ideology over interest? Trump’s costly INF decision.
One of the puzzling aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the INF agreement is that there is no reason to take this step now.
Curt Mills: Mr. Putin Goes to Washington?
The trip had been floated as early as this past summer, but if confirmed, it would set up a high-stakes summit to kick off next year’s calendar.
Mikhail Gorbachev: A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun
President Trump says he plans to withdraw from a nonproliferation treaty that I signed with Ronald Reagan. It’s just the latest victim in the militarization of world affairs.