Prominent foreign-policy analysts are saying post the Russia-Georgia conflict, America needs to get tougher on Moscow. But we should instead be working to improve the relationship. If we face facts, America still needs Russia.
In the future our relations with China and Russia will depend on how provocative each power decides to be. The stakes are high. Better choose wisely.
Many are saying Russia’s new energy wealth will enable it to wreak havoc in Europe and challenge America’s position. At a Nixon Center event, a panel separated fact from fiction.
With the closing of two British Council offices in Russia, the ghost of Alexander Litvinenko has come back to haunt Britain and Russia.
Is a new Moscow-Washington conflict in the cards? Growing Russian nationalism and assertive Kremlin policies threaten to usher in a new era of competition.
Last Thursday, Nixon Center President Dimitri K. Simes discussed his article in the recent issue of The National Interest. He offered both an explanation for the strained interaction, and some answers about where it is headed.
Tensions between President Putin and the West aside, a market economy has begun to function not only in the traditional centers of the country, but also throughout its periphery.
An upsurge in energy revenue has helped precipitate an assertive Russian foreign policy. But China provides an alternative model for transforming economic growth into international influence, a model Moscow might want to take a close look at.
A Russian journalist's perspective of Secretary Rice’s upcoming visit to his country.
New books by Nikolas Gvosdev and Irakly Areshidze both view the same phenomenon-the development of two Newly Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet Union