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Arm Wrestling

Richard Weitz | Feb 29, 2008
As Russia and the United States break the armistice, will China play referee?

A Strategic Defense Initiative

Carnes Lord | Jun 01, 2004
This is not your father's "Star Wars." Missile Defense is real, it's coming, and it will be a indispensible instrument of American power.

Continental Divides

Josef Joffe | Mar 01, 2003
It took awhile--more than a dozen years, in point of fact--but the natural tendency in international politics for states to balance against the power of a hegemon has emerged. In western Europe, of all places.

Cruise Control: A Case for Missile Defense

Michael O'Hanlon | Mar 01, 2002
There are 75,000 cruise missiles in the world, and the chance that some could fall into nefarious hands isn't nearly small enough.
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Commentary

Russian Reset a Cold War Restart

Ariel Cohen | Aug 08, 2011
Some in Moscow are calling U.S. senators "monsters" and accusing America of targeting missile defense at Russia.  Obama can consider his policy a failure. 

Don't Rush START

Dimitri K. Simes
Dov S. Zakheim
| Jul 28, 2010
The dialogue between the administration and the Senate on America’s nuclear force is too important to be hurried along.

An American Treaty

Julia Ioffe | Apr 08, 2010
The new arms deal with Russia is a historic achievement—for Obama. The Kremlin couldn’t care less and is focused on a wholly different set of foreign-policy issues.
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Blogs

Resets and Spheres of Influence

Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 19, 2010
Surprise, Russia and China want their own spheres of influence. Condi Rice couldn't have been more wrong—the age of great-power politics is far from over.

Books & Reviews

A Dubious Partnership; Review of Fred C. Ikle and Sergei A. Karaganov, (co-chairs), Harmonizing the Evolution of U.S. and Russian Defense Policies

James Sherr | Mar 01, 1994
At one time conservatives like Castlereagh, nationalists like Bismarck and internationalists like Gladstone were all convinced that international order would be torn apart unless the interests of Great Powers were respected and kept in balance. Th

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