Occupation: Academic Birth: October 1, 1963
It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation." Then what? What do we get out of….
Vladimir Putin will be up for reelection, and he has shifted his whole political strategy inside of Russia from one where he promised the Russians pr….
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible..
In the short run, the big windfall winners ... have been the Islamists..
Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad..
I want to be clear that when you mention the Republican critique of President Obama, that is not President-elect Trump's critique, right? So you have….
Take cyber-capabilities. We have way more cyber-capability than Russia do. We could intervene in their elections easily. We choose not to do so becau….
Trump has got to define what he seeks to achieve with Russia, and then use diplomacy and sometimes coercion to achieve those ends. Right now, aside f….
Russians don't want to fight ISIS in Syria. They want to leave that to us. Aside from that, I don't know what are the objectives that Mr. Trump seeks….
I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't w….
Putin is now nationalist. And what he does is, he tells the Russian people, OK, you may have a little less chicken in your pot, but I'm making Russia….
I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information..
We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy..
Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he wants from the relationship with USA. In return for good relations, he wants lifting of sanctions, ratification,….