Too many reputations and other interests are vested in the legend for it to vanish from American politics anytime soon.
VIDEO: U.S.- Russian Nuclear Arms Control and the Start of a New Arms Race
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) hosted discussion on, “The End of U.S.- Russian Nuclear Arms Control and the Start of a New Arms Race.”
Carnegie Endowment: Russia’s Global Ambitions in Perspective
Russia’s long-standing quest for strategic depth, great power ambitions, and uneasy ties with the West have left an indelible imprint on Moscow’s foreign policy.
Fred Weir: To make Russia great again, Putin is building roads and bridges
Why does Vladimir Putin remain so popular among Russians? One key reason: He is overseeing the construction of a better Russia in the form of new roads, rails, bridges, and other much-needed infrastructure.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev: The Contenders for the Ukrainian Presidency
Ukraine’s 2018 presidential elections should have been a major milestone in the country’s political consolidation…
Stephen Kinzer: We’re Edging Closer to Nuclear War
The Trump administration has been moving systematically to undermine accords that have kept nuclear proliferation within possibly manageable limits over the last half century.
Brian Milakovsky: Making a Living in Wartime Donbas
The residents of the Donbas experience the economic crisis brought on by the armed conflict in diverse ways…
Ted Galen Carpenter: The Battle for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy Has Begun
Congressional efforts are underway to seize control of foreign-policy decisions from the executive. Who will win?
PODCAST: An interview with Marlene Laruelle on Russian nationalism
Q: Is Vladimir Putin a Russian nationalist?
A: I think it’s a mistake to consider Putin a nationalist and here there’s also the same confusion with authoritarianism and being aggressive in foreign policy. So you always have this confusion when you use nationalist as a synonym for being an authoritarian leader and having foreign policy the west considers aggressive.
Paul Robinson: The Russians Done It
A while back I suggested starting a new series entitled ‘The Russians Done It’. Since then, there have been a few items which I could have added to the series, including the story that Russia is responsible for the worldwide measles epidemic…
Andrey Sushentsov: There Is No Stability but Are There Grounds for Optimism?
Despite an avalanche of bad news, a major crisis does not start. Some invisible safety net seems to keep the world away from war. Why does this happen?
PIIRS: Historian Stephen Cohen discusses ‘War with Russia?’ at Princeton University
Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University and professor emeritus of Russian studies and history at New York University, discussed his most recent book, “War With Russia?,” which gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump’s election and today’s unprecedented Russiagate allegations.
RFE/RL: Deputized As Election Monitors, Ukrainian Ultranationalists ‘Ready To Punch’ Violators
They patrol the streets of the Ukrainian capital in matching urban camouflage and march in lockstep through Kyiv with torches…
John Buell: Nuclear Brinkmanship Is Back: Why We Need a New Peace Movement
Nuclear modernization is one of the most wasteful aspects of a bloated military budget and drains the economy of persons and resources needed to mitigate the damage climate change is already inflicting.
PODCAST: TruthDig: Liberals Are Digging Their Own Grave With Russiagate
“This new Cold War [is] more dangerous than the preceding Cold War,” professor Stephen Cohen tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.”
Andrew Bacevich: Among the Pro-Restraint Progressives
The only way we’ll defeat the foreign policy establishment is if the Left and Right can be brought together.
Lyle Goldstein: Does Russia See a War Threat in Warsaw?
The United States need not further inflame the new cold war with unnecessary and provocative basing arrangements in Eastern Europe.
US News and World Report: U.S. Considering New Lethal Aid to Ukraine to Deter Russia
THE TOP MILITARY commander for operations in Europe said Monday the U.S. is considering providing additional lethal aid to Ukraine to deter future Russian naval aggression akin to the recent crisis in the Kerch Strait.
CCI’S INVESTIGATIVE TRIP TO RUSSIA 2019
The dramatic and dangerous deterioration in relations between the U.S. and Russia demands that we all take unprecedented actions in 2019. It requires that citizens find unusual ways to educate and break through the mire of political actions and inaction to create new initiatives. CCI led the way in U.S.-USSR relations in the early 1980s before the term “citizen diplomacy” was coined. We are again searching for unparalleled ways for citizens to act.
Stephen F. Cohen: The Long History of US-Russian ‘Meddling’
Even though the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found “no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia,” Russiagate allegations of “collusion” between candidate and then–President Donald Trump and the Kremlin have poisoned American politics for nearly three years.