What’s Wrong with the Boisto Plan?
Just before Poroshenko and Putin met in Minsk today, the so-called Boisto Group (named for the Finnish island where the group’s six American and seven Russian foreign policy experts met)…
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Finland Meeting: Building Trust? Or Mistrust?
A meeting of senior American and Russian experts on an island of Boisto, which the Finnish Foreign Ministry helped to organize some time ago, has raised a controversy both in…
Why Sanctions Against Russia Might Backfire
(Huffington Post/Berggruen Institute) Will Western sanctions against Russia work? It's not clear what that question means, since it isn't obvious what Russia has to do to end them. It doesn't…
A Tale of Two Russian Narratives
(Carnegie Forum on Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations) Two broad narratives have come to dominate debates about the sources of Russian foreign policy toward Ukraine. The “domestic politics” view argues that concerns…
Why Russia Intervenes
(Carnegie Forum on Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations) The ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine has attracted extensive news coverage and political commentary in the United States. Reading the commentary, one often…
Personalization and Patriotism
(Carnegie Forum on Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations) American media narratives generally tend to excessively personalize politics and international affairs, and recent coverage of Russia is no exception to this overall trend.…
Why Obama’s Coercion Strategy in Ukraine Will Fail
(National Interest) The downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 has dramatically escalated tensions surrounding the Ukraine crisis. On Tuesday, the EU and the United States enacted unprecedented economic sanctions against…
Russia still defiant against sanctions, but for how long?
(Russia Direct) NATO allies are resorting to stepped-up economic sanctions against Russia. They are doing it because they are convinced that diplomacy has failed to deter Russia from intervening in…
Petrov: What is happening is different from what the Kremlin wanted and expected
(The New York Times) MOSCOW — Russia, facing the toughest round of Western sanctions imposed since the Ukraine crisis erupted, has adopted a nonchalant public stance, with President Vladimir V.…
Ponarin: Russia’s U.S. antipathy stems from elite frustration over the failure to modernize along some foreign models
(The New York Times) Russia’s quasiwar in eastern Ukraine is in no small measure a product of long-felt anti-Western tensions within Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin that are rapidly spiraling out of…