One the most important responsibilities of any American president is to reduce nuclear dangers and to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
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Daniel Larison: A Last Chance To Save New START
ussia has offered to agree to a five-year extension immediately before the end of the year.
Dimitri Alexander Simes: What Does Russia Expect from the Putin-Zelensky Meeting?
At first glance, the upcoming Putin-Zelensky summit appears to have all the necessary ingredients for a potential breakthrough meeting. But can the Putin-Zelensky summit live up to these high expectations?
Fred Weir Responds to The Atlantic’s “The Russification of the Republican Party”
There is something to the idea that American political culture is becoming increasingly Sovietized, writes Weir….
Carl J. Schramm: ‘The Interagency’ Isn’t Supposed to Rule
The Constitution gives the president, not a club of unelected officials, the power to set foreign policy.
Paul Robinson: NAPOLEON, KUTUZOV, AND THE CHANGING INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Do we want to be Napoleon or do we want to be Kutuzov? Our future depends on our response.
Stephen F. Cohen: Who Is Making US Foreign Policy?
An anti-neocon president appears to have been surrounded by neocons in his own administration.
Gordon Hahn: The Lessons of Russia’s Syrian Intervention for Washington and Brussels
The era in which the United States and/or the West (NATO) can dictate outcomes anywhere across the globe unilaterally has ended.
Brian Milakovsky: Ukraine’s Divided House Still Stands
A lasting settlement must address the growing chasm between the region’s two halves.