There is no longer any ambiguity regarding the evolution of the international system. Moreover, in some situations, power politics can play a constructive role. So, in Eurasia, conditions are being shaped the formation of an extensive Eurasian concert, analogous to the European concert of the early 19th century, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Andrey Sushentsov.
Natylie Baldwin: Cold War Liberals at the State Department and the DNC
The author Natylie Baldwin asks ACEWA editor James Carden (also of The Nation magazine and the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy), about the foreign policy views within the Obama-era State Department.
Ted Galen Carpenter: Why Russia Likes to Play Aerial ‘Chicken’ with America
The already dangerous cold war with Russia could easily turn hot.
Stephen F. Cohen: Putin In Israel
On January 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Israel to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet (mostly Russian) army.
The Barents Observer: Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
Photos and short video clips have previously been available, but this unseen 40 minutes declassified footage of the Soviet Union’s monster nuclear bomb give a whole new insight into what happened on Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961.
Michael Krepon: The Long-Term Costs of NATO Expansion
NATO expansion was pre-cooked in 1993. It would have taken an extraordinarily farsighted president, largely immune from political pressures, to have opted for political, military and economic engagement without NATO expansion.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos: Let’s Do The Pentagon Time Warp Again
Stepping into the 6.6 million square foot building is a return to the 1950s – a lot like our national security strategy.
Shannon Bugos: Extending New START Will Pull Back the Doomsday Clock
Until last week, the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock remained steady since 2018: two minutes to midnight
Melvin Goodman: Trump’s War On Arms Control and Disarmament
For the past two years, Trump has taken steps to thoroughly weaken the arms control regime.
Barbara Boland: Foreign Governments Are Greasing U.S. Think Tank ‘Experts’ With Millions
New swamp report:$174 million was poured into the D.C. influence game over four years—that’s double earlier estimates.
David C. Speedie and Krishen Mehta: The Navalny Case: Usual Suspects, Actual Culprits?
We are concerned about the recent news relating to the poisoning of Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, and believe that it may be another attempt by certain interested parties to worsen the already strained US-Russia relations.
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Paul Pillar: Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections is Even Worse Than You Thought
The misconduct for which Donald Trump has been impeached centers on an attempt to drag a foreign government into a U.S. election campaign. That caper has increased public attention to the problem of foreign interference in U.S. politics, but the problem is more extensive than discourse about the impeachment process would suggest.
Rajah Menon: Belarus’s Protests Aren’t Particularly Anti-Putin
With little chance of the installation of an anti-Russian regime in Minsk, Moscow doesn’t have much reason to step into the fray.
TNR: The Neocons Strike Back
How a discredited foreign policy ideology continues to wreak havoc in Washington and around the world.
Tom Couser: An Open Letter to Strobe Talbott About RussiaGate
Professor Tom Couser writes: I met Strobe Talbott in 1968 when he and I were graduate students at Magdalen College, Oxford. I liked him and respected him, and after we lost touch as friends, I followed his career at Time, the State Department, and the Brookings Institution with admiration. In recent years, however, I’ve become disillusioned with the foreign policy he advocated with regard to Russia and was disturbed to learn of his involvement in the genesis of the Russiagate narrative.
Lyle J. Goldstein: The Fate of the China-Russia Alliance
The Moscow-Beijing collaborative relations have already yielded major shifts in the military balance in the Asia-Pacific two times. Will the third time be a global transformation?
Aris Roussinos: The irresistible rise of the civilisation-state
A spectre is haunting the liberal West: the rise of the “civilisation-state”.
Lucy Komisar: Danish Press Board says report on Browder is true
In December, the Danish Press Board rejected a complaint that William Browder filed against Finans, Finans.dk, a Danish financial news outlet, part of the national daily Jyllands-Posten, that reported on his tax evasion and invented Magnitsky story in a documented exposé by journalists Jette Aagaard and Kristoffer Brahm.
Vadim Nikitin: What Belarus Stands to Lose
So far, none of the opposition leaders have demonstrated a vocal commitment to preserving Belarus’s key asset: its social and economic equality. Worryingly, two key opposition leaders, Tsepkalo and Viktor Babariko, a career banker, are known for their staunchly pro-business views and vocal support for privatization.
Paul Robinson: Striking Back
On more than one occasion I have complained about the all-too prevalent habit of smearing people as ‘Kremlin proxies’, ‘Russian agents’, and the like, simply because they happen not to share the belief that Russia is at the root of all the political turmoil recently experienced by Western states.