“History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” – Mark Twain David Satter, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and visiting scholar at SAIS, has done an amazing thing to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin ...
Today, an important Russian business leader is giving a speech that we have obtained an advanced copy of and that we are happy to provide to our readers. Transcript is accessible at the following link: 2009Nov06.Igor.Yurgens.Elliott-Lecture.pdf
Ariel Cohen and Richard Ericson have a new paper discussing Russia’s economic crisis and its relations with the United States. I would encourage reading this paper in full as it hits on all the major factors relevant to Russia’s econom...
Walter Laqueur of the Center for Strategic and International Studies has a very thought-provoking new paper out entitled “Russia’s Muslim Strategy“. It’s quite a bit to digest, as there are obviously a number of subplots to...
From Robert Amsterdam’s latest in the Huffington Post: Why then, with so much going for him and his country, should he make such controversial choices in his friends? Lula’s increasingly warm embrace of Iran’s President Mahmoud A...
The other day the Financial Times had a good editorial on Vladimir Putin’s visit to China to sign a plethora of business and energy deals, and naturally, the holy grail of all such diplomacy: becoming a bigger supplier of natural gas t...
Author, journalist, and blogger Steve LeVine has just punched a new article about the rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia … yet according to his Facebook feed, he is not being allowed to link to his own blog, as several FB users have is...
From that ever-fascinating world of academic studies on Russia-Chinese relations comes a new report of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Author Geir Flikke spent the summer of 2009 with a research grant from Norway’s Mi...
If you can find 20 minutes to spare, Parag Khanna’s presentation at this year’s TED conference has some thought provoking moments. Among them: 2:45 – 6:00 – a discussion of the China-Mongolia-Russia space and how the de fac...
Writing in the Australian paper The National, Roger Stern and Bernard Haykel see the current situation in Iran as similar to the twilight of the Soviet Union: Next, the kingdom should reprise its greatest peacemaking performance: the 1986 oil pric...
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