As the current U.S. president is excoriated on a daily basis for being “pro-Russian,” the chances of great-power conflict in either Syria or Ukraine have escalated precipitously.
Analysis
Ted Galen Carpenter: Poking the Russian Bear With the NATO Umbrella
Our Western European partners thought it was a bad idea then, and do now. Why aren’t we listening?
James Carden: Trump and Bolton Kill a Historic Nuclear-Arms-Control Agreement
The new Cold War just got colder.
Stephen F. Cohen: The Abolition of Nuclear Abolitionism?
President Trump’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty nullifies a historic precedent.
Interview With Richard Burt: The Dangers of Withdrawing from the INF Treaty
“We’re potentially just a short distance from a major mistake.”
Bruce Fein: Will Congress Have the Spine to Defy Trump on a Russian Nuke Treaty?
Congress commands clear constitutional authority to prohibit President Donald Trump from terminating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia. But does it have the spine?
Alexander Gillespie: The end of INF: Another nuclear treaty bites the dust
On October 20, US President Donald Trump announced that he intends to withdraw the United States from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Moscow.
Doug Bandow: Why America Shouldn’t Threaten Preemptive War
Continually pushing for dominance in the backyards of the world’s nuclear powers is madness.
Alice Slater: Time Out for Nukes!
With 122 nations having voted last summer to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, it seems that the world is locked in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times…
PODCAST: ‘On Point’ Talks with Professor Stephen Walt
According to Walt, “the relationship with Russia and China is worse than it’s been since the Cold War.”
Sarah Lazare: How Pro-War Democrats Use Russiagate To Bloat the Military
Russia became the bipartisan justification for an $716 billion defense budget and nuclear build-up.
Jacob Heilbrunn: The Ghosts of 1918
As they confront a new and dangerous era, world leaders might recall the lesson that the British historian A.J.P. Taylor drew from the carnage of World War I: “Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”
Andrew J Bacevich: So, Senator Warren: You’re Clearly Running for President
As a constituent, I have noted with interest your suggestion that you will “take a hard look” at running for president in 2020, even as you campaign for reelection to the Senate next month.
Paul Robinson: On Russian Conservatism
Many Russian conservatives in the modern era argue that the development of a multipolar world, in which nations protect their sovereignty and defend their right to a separate path of development, serves not only Russian interests, but also those of humanity as a whole.
Stephen F. Cohen: Inconvenient Thoughts on Cold War and Other News
As to which aspects of US foreign policyTrump actually controls, we might ask more urgently if he authorized, or was fully informed about, the joint US-NATO-Ukraine military air exercises that got under way over Ukraine, abutting Russia, on October 8. Moscow regards these exercises as a major “provocation,” and not unreasonably.
Lyle Goldstein: Will the ‘Bulava’ Submarine-Launched Missile ‘Save Russia’?
A return to the days of “duck and cover” in U.S.-Russia relations reflects widespread ignorance of the inherent costs and extraordinary dangers of arms racing in the nuclear age.
VIDEO: Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
On September 27, 2018, Yale’s Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the acclaimed Russian-American journalist and broadcaster.
Paul Saunders: Enduring Consequences of Russia’s 1993 Crisis
Twenty-five years ago this week, a confrontation between Russia’s then President Boris Yeltsin and the country’s parliament culminated in armed standoffs that left more than 100 people dead and became unambiguously one of the most consequential events in Russia’s post-Soviet history.
Paul Robinson: The Inability to See
The policies Putin pursues can be seen as a response to Russia’s historical and domestic political context, not, as they are normally portrayed in the West…
David S. Foglesong: Putin: From Soulmate to Archenemy
Blaming the dangerous deterioration of Russian-American rela- tions on the soulless character of Vladimir Putin is simplistic, mislead- ing, and ahistorical. It obscures rather than reveals the main sources of American-Russian conflict.