Search: Donald Trump (187 materials)

 

Trump and Russia

Donald Trump is the 45 th president of the United States. How could this happen? Politicians, experts, journalists will long be debating this question. But no matter how analysts assess this event, they all agree that American society and the US political ...

20.01.2017

Judging the Effects: The Shaping Iranian Perspective on JCPOA and Trump's Options

... as well. For Iranians, as long as the deal brings benefit to people and supports national interests, its sustainability is guaranteed but only with the commitments met by the US and European countries. Indeed even the policies of US president elect Donald Trump could be constrained within this perspective. That is the main reason why the US and other international players need to consider "effects" of their sanction relief policies in line with maintaining JCPOA. Deal support clarifies ...

19.01.2017

2016 – Contours of the New Reality

... are taking place inside the collective West. The past year released the energy of social protest that had been accumulating for a long time in response to moderate election platforms and routine rhetoric from the entrenched establishment. Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election became symbols of these changes. The referendum in Great Britain as such is not a serious threat to the European Union but the enormous collection of problems will compel the EU to revise its ...

11.01.2017

Putin Likes the Fact That Trump Is Not Another Hypocritical Western Leader

The outgoing US administration painted itself into a corner with the Ukraine issue, says Dmitri Trenin. Above all, Russia’s cynical President Vladimir Putin expects to conclude agreements with the new US President Donald Trump regarding the Ukrainian question: to pressure Kyiv into implementing the Minsk agreements in Donbass and to promise not to accept Ukraine into NATO, explained the Director of the Moscow centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace—one ...

12.12.2016

Jiri Valenta: Deal-maker Trump Will Likely Choose Persuasion

... policies and his possibility to address key international agenda issues such as protracted conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. In an interview with RIAC Director General Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Dr. Jiri Valenta, CFR member, reflects on what made the victory of Donald Trump possible and shares his perspective on US – Russian rapprochement under President Trump, cooperation on security matters as well as relations between the leaders of Russia and the US. Andrey Kortunov: These days many American foreign ...

01.12.2016

Russian Officials Were in Contact With Trump Allies

The Russian government maintained contacts with members of Donald J. Trump’s “immediate entourage” during the American presidential campaign, one of Russia’s top diplomats said Thursday. “There were contacts,” Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. “We continue to do this and have been doing this work during the election campaign,” he said. Mr. Ryabkov said officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry...

01.12.2016

Ukraine could be Trump’s trump card

Ukraine is unlikely to be one of President-elect Donald Trump’s main foreign-policy priorities, when set against other issues such as China and the fight against international terrorism. Trump also sees the Ukrainian situation as a primarily European problem to be dealt with by European leaders....

30.11.2016

Dual Containment: Trump’s Foreign Policy Dilemmas

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has generated an enormous amount of speculation about the future of US foreign policy. Indeed, the campaign rhetoric of the president-elect featured a large number of high-profile statements....

29.11.2016

The “Trump Doctrine” in NATO

Europe and Russia are anticipating an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration For the EU, Donald Trump’s ascension to power poses a challenge, although European leaders are not openly talking about it. The EU is seriously concerned not so much about NATO as a forum for a daily political dialogue with the United States as about the future ...

17.11.2016
 

Poll conducted

  1. 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%)
For business
For researchers
For students