Tom Hanson introduces himself as a “recovering diplomat.” He worked for the State Department for 25 years, as an officer of the Foreign Service in the Soviet Union, East Germany and other European countries in the last years of the Cold War and its aftermath. After he...
China believes democracy is in decline and the era of a unipolar world order dominated by the United States is all but over. In that context, one wonders where the world is headed, and if we are going to see a war involving China and the United States. Michael McFaul,...
Are the sanctions, which have not deterred Vladimir Putin thus far, likely to be effective in Russia? Michael McFaul, an American academic and diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia (2012-14), believes it might lead to the end of Putinism in the long...
For years, I have watched Russia putting up parades more and more pompous celebrating their victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 every May 9. The Victory Day military parade through Red Square has been an almost painfully nationalistic display of power. I wondered, why...
During our days in New York City this April, we visited The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Leaving the posh building, I carried their over 200-pages magazine Foreign Affairs in my purse. It had a stunning cover: a globe covered by a hanging Ukraine flag with the...