From Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Philip Stephens (“The case for a Biden-Putin thaw”, Opinion, November 20) is wrong to state that Barack Obama’s “reset” with Russia “went nowhere”. It was quite a successful policy turn that […]

Earlier this year, our friend and colleague Stephen Cohen passed away. His contributions to the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies will be felt for years to come. Professor Cohen was a historian, but his legacy extends far beyond his […]

By Jonathan Cook Analysts are still grappling with the fallout from the U.S. election. Trumpism proved a far more enduring and alluring phenomenon than most media pundits expected. Defying predictions, President Donald Trump improved his share of the overall vote compared […]

By Joel B. Pollak Rudy Giuliani and other lawyers representing President Donald Trump’s campaign outlined their case Thursday that the Nov. 3 presidential election was so deeply flawed in several key states that the results should be overturned in the […]

By Glenn Diesen, an Associate Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Russia and France have different objectives, yet both recognise the need to push back against Turkey’s expansionism, the intrusive […]

US strategists lost empathy, along with their wars By Anatol Lieven The great realist thinker Hans Morgenthau stated that a fundamental ethical duty of the statesman is the cultivation of empathy: the ability through study to see the world through […]

DEFENCE TURNS THE MH17 SHOW TRIAL INTO A CIRCUS (excerpt) by John Helmer, Moscow Dutch and Russian state officials combined last week to turn the trial of the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 into a farce. Two Rotterdam police […]

By Carey List The election of a new President in the United States is a momentous occasion at any time, but 2020 seems potentially ripe for earth shaking consequences. Few acts have more earth shaking consequences than war, and so […]

America’s retired spies want to be in charge of picking our presidents. By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Let’s talk about lying. They admitted to having no evidence, but 50 former U.S. intelligence officials claimed the leak of Hunter Biden emails […]

If he wins another four years in the White House in the election on November 3, U.S. President Donald Trump may make a new push to mend Washington’s severely strained relations with Moscow, doubling down on an effort that was […]