Gorbachev, who celebrates his 90th birthday on March 2, was perhaps the most radical thinker about security to ever lead a major world power – and certainly the most radical to ever lead a nuclear country.
Kevin Barron: Biden Wants to Restore NATO. Macron Is Looking to Move On.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron is looking forward – to an entirely new transatlantic “security architecture” for the 21st century.
Reuters: Armenia seeks bigger Russian military presence on its territory
Armenia would welcome the expansion of a Russian military base on its territory and the redeployment of some Russian forces closer to its border with Azerbaijan after a conflict with its neighbor last year.
WSJ: Biden’s Nominee for CIA, William J. Burns, Set to Trade Diplomacy for Spycraft
As a veteran U.S. diplomat, William J. Burns led secret negotiations with Iran and Libya over their weapons programs, served as ambassador in Jordan and Russia, oversaw U.S. relations with the Middle East and then ascended to the highest levels of the State Department.
PODCAST: Chion Wolf: Apocalypse When?
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor. It moves closer to midnight depending on how close we are to human-made global catastrophe through climate change, nuclear weapons, and pandemics fueled by misinformation and failed leadership. Y’know, the typical folly of humankind. Find out what time it is from two members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Michael C. Desch: Looking Back To Our Realist Past
Many commentators have remarkably short historical memories.
Daniel Rakov and Yochai Guiski: Why Joe Biden Should Start a Cybersecurity Dialogue With Russia
The idea that engaging Russia on cyber may provide legitimacy to its behavior should be replaced with the understanding that dialogue is the best way to address and convey concerns without compromising on your values and interests.
Robert Merry: America’s Plot For World Domination
America wasn’t born as a benign instrumentality of peace destined to calm the waters of international conflict through means never before seen in any successful guise in the annals of human history.
Dmitri Trenin: Russia and Europe: the Current Impasse and the Way Out
Russia and the European Union need to imagine a more realistic goal for their relationship: a model of neighborliness, in which the inevitable disagreements will be managed in order to prevent disruptive conflicts and damaging collisions.
PODCAST: Tony Kevin talks with Tom Switzer on Australia’s ‘Between The Lines’
A conversation with Tom Switzer of ABC Radio National Australia ‘Between The Lines’ on Russia -West relations under Biden. Ten minutes, starts at 19 minute mark .
Two Speeches, Two Visions: Presidents Joseph R. Biden and Vladimir Putin
Today we are posting two recent speeches by the presidents of the U.S. and Russia that might serve to illuminate the differing approaches each takes toward international affairs. These very different statements might also point to the underlying differences that remain a cause for the ongoing difficulty in achieving a less strained, more productive US-Russia relationship.
President Biden: Remarks by President Biden on America’s Place in the World
We must start with diplomacy rooted in America’s most cherished democratic values: defending freedom, championing opportunity, upholding universal rights, respecting the rule of law, and treating every person with dignity.
President Putin: Speech at the Davos 2021 online forum
We all know that competition and rivalry between countries in world history never stopped, do not stop and will never stop. Differences and a clash of interests are also natural for such a complicated body as human civilisation. However, in critical times this did not prevent it from pooling its efforts – on the contrary, it united in the most important destinies of humankind.
Announcement: Bulletin Virtual Program: Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?
On Feb. 24, join The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to discuss Elisabeth Eaves’s newest piece “Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?” featuring Elisabeth Eaves, ACURA’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and arms control expert Thomas Countryman.
NBC News: Lawmakers urge Biden administration to update Congress on sanctions against Russian gas pipeline
Opponents of the pipeline in Congress are increasingly impatient with the administration to enforce sanctions on the Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline.
Willis L. Krumholz: Biden’s ‘America Is Back’ Speech Misunderstands How Overstretched America Is Abroad
Diplomacy is good, but America cannot do everything at once and is still stuck in multiple wars.
Podcast: Al Jazeera: Talking about Navalny
Paul Robinson joined a panel on Al-Jazeera’s show ‘The Stream’, to discuss Alexei Navalny.
Mark Episkopos: What the Navalny Affair Actually Means for Russia
The fallout from the ongoing Navalny saga extends beyond Russia’s domestic affairs, contributing to a dangerous cycle of escalation between Moscow and the West.
Daniel Larison: Hegemony Is A Choice
The U.S. faces so many “challenges” because our leaders have chosen to pursue policies that put us on collision courses with many other states and groups.
Paul Robinson: On Konstantin Bogomolov’s Manifesto
The idea that Russia should emulate the West is pretty much at the core of Russian liberalism. But rather than praising the West, Bogomolov lays into it as a “New ethical Reich” that has established a totalitarianism that tries to enforce total compliance not just of what people say but also of what they feel.