US, Russia and China: Coping with Rogue States and Terrorists Groups
The blog focuses on US.-Russian-Chinese conflicts and their cooperation in developing new approaches to threats from rogue states and terrorists groups. Realizing that Great Powers have common interests in economic growth, the welfare of their citizens and preventing nuclear holocaust and ethnic genocides, it avoids the Cold War rhetoric and focuses on the analysis of Great Powers' national interests in determining their policies. Dr. Jiri Valenta is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and the author-co-editor of nine books. Leni Friedman Valenta, a playwriting graduate of the Yale School of Drama, is the co-writer/editor and CEO of their post-communist/terrorism website, jvlv.net. Their articles have appeared in the premier international affairs magazines, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, Survival and leading newspapers such as The New York Times, Times London, El Pais (Madrid) and Moscow News.
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What happened in July 2002 reminds me of December 1979 Afghanistan. Then, Russian Chief of the General Staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov heatedly and fervently objected to the fateful decision to invade Afghanistan. “We will…
“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” So said Winston Churchill forging strategy with FDR against the brutal Nazis who occupied continental Europe and…
JVLV: Together with my partner and wife, Leni, I am responding to Elizabeth Pond´s four “M” scenarios – Mearsheimer, McCain, Motyl and Merkel -- for resolving the trenchant Ukraine crisis. Sadly, none of these…
Why hide it? I was disappointed. Sadly the Washington celebration of the 70th anniversary victory in Europe, much less dignified than the one in London the same day, displayed old weaponry and battles involving not…
The Jihadist terror has now extended from Europe across the Atlantic to North Garland Texas. Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the man on an Al Qaeda hit list for his daring film…
“Space”— to riot, burglarize, and burn our cities at home, but also space for terrorists to destroy, murder, crucify and behead abroad. Indeed, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake’s subsequently…
April 25, 2015 April 24 had two meanings for us; the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Turks, but also the 90th birthday of my Jewish mother who lived through the Holocaust. Unable to marry, she carried this…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has just declared his readiness to mend his ties to the West as long as Moscow is not treated as a “vassal.” Why now? Likely because the Obama era of “strategic patience” is nearing…
Undeniably, Secretary John Kerry has labored long and hard on the U.S.-Iran deal, and there are some positives as Leslie Gelb has asserted. As for the complaints of the Republicans, is important to remember, there is no agreement yet…
The murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia’s leading opposition leader, might be a turning point in Russia’s history. It is a major blow to Russia’s democratic movement and to those who supported a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian…
Former U.S. DOD chief Leon Panetta asserts, "The greatest threat to our national security is dysfunction in D.C." What he left out is that the fault lies primarily with Pied Piper POTUS whose doctrine is "strategic patienc" and…
The 17 hours Minsk negotiations of EU, Russian and Ukrainian leaders has produced a cease fire, effective February 15 -- but will this one stick? A prior September 5th Minsk agreement, did not. First we must know what produced this one…
Poll conducted
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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements 33 (31%) U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity 30 (28%) U.S. wants to dissolve Russia 24 (22%) U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China 21 (19%)
