Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin Begs To Differ

| Oct 28, 2009

One doesn’t need to be a Russian domestic radical or a foreign Russophobe to see major flaws in the way Russia is ruled. The population, however, is satisfied with the status quo...for now.

Mismanaged for eight years by the Bush administration, the Republican Party is in peril. Neoconservative table scraps are neither appropriate nor wise. But the GOP has another foreign-policy tradition to which it can turn. Presidents from Eisenhow

The Road to Moscow

Gary Hart

Dimitri K. Simes

| Apr 27, 2009

Since the end of the cold war, American foreign policy toward Russia has been dismissive of Russian interests. Acknowledging that a country has separate aims does not mean we cannot work toward common goals.

Continental Drifts

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Mar 02, 2009

America and the Continent may find themselves once again a united force to be reckoned with by the rest of the world. But the odds are grim.

Empire Falls

Robert A. Pape | Jan 22, 2009

The United States is in unprecedented decline. Future generations will look back at the past decade as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.

Putin's Third Way

Clifford G. Gaddy

Barry W. Ickes

| Jan 21, 2009

With the rise in oil prices and a conservative fiscal policy, Russia turned from a debtor nation into an economic powerhouse, creating a compromise between the excesses of the free market and the inefficiencies of a command economy

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