... one of the more interesting Chairships of the United Nations Security Council, with Russia taking over and being charged with a rather delicate balancing act: between conducting... ... Envoy to the UN, Samantha Power. She has always held relatively adversarial positions toward Russia and recently made major headlines when she accused Russia of engaging in... ... personage of Maria Zakharova, the official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some of the highlights of her comments were rich in both imagery and...
... foreign leaders. While mainstream American media is still basically covering the race ... ... presidency of another Clinton. At the moment, Russia seems to be one of those countries.... ... Democrats always have to defend against the accusation of being foreign policy weaklings.... ... to the 2004 election, when some analysts warned, ‘if Democrats are to have any ... ... veteran, Purple Heart winner, and long-time Foreign Affairs Senate stalwart John Kerry ... ... establishment that chronically view Russia with Cold War attitudes, regardless of evidence....
... honest answers, based on previous American drone usage, probably carry some severe repercussions for ... ... all. China and Pakistan Most discussions of an immediate drone rival to the United States begin and ... ... certain that the drone was not American, Chinese, or Russian: IDF claimed it to be an Iranian drone assembled ... ... develop their own programs. The basic principles of foreign affairs dictate that America could easily be ... ... prominently. It is inconceivable to think a ‘drone war’ between Iran and Saudi Arabia or Egypt would ...
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in the formal National Security Strategy (NSS) of President Obama with actual testimony given by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In 2010 the NSS asserted that the U.S. would endeavor to ‘build ...
... decided chicken-and-egg quality when trying to unravel Russian-American relations. The general pessimism and ... ... more accurate to describe Putin’s hostility toward America as one far more deeply rooted in frustration.... ... Cohen astutely called several years back as ‘Cold War Triumphalism.’ In basic terms, since ... ... initiatives can be found backing up such radical accusations. More calm analyses find Russia simply not ... ... support and encouragement, at least through formal media declarations and diplomatic speeches, did not ...
... This is especially prominent in explaining the poor relationship at the moment with Russia. There seems to be an element of purposeful animosity in the way Russia is viewed... ... interesting, really does not amount to more than just gossip and hearsay. Worse, American media and political analysts adopted it almost wholly as fact rather than as one perspective... ... placed the Democratic Party as squarely pessimistic and adversarial in its attitude toward Russia as the Republicans. Indeed, in today’s environment of divided government...
There are numerous think tanks, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the state of Russian-American relations. Places ... ... Centre or the Brookings Institution in Washington DC are regular go-to places for the media when seeking expert opinion and analysis. However, these centers of independent... ... force-influence its foreign policy. So why should Russia? It is this very simple and straightforward question that seems to never be asked by what are otherwise august media institutions...
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ and preconceptions. Indeed, it is perhaps one of the ... ...
Experts, whether academic or practitioner, need to move beyond ‘factor wars’ designed to show that one favorite causal factor is more important than another, concentrating instead on the combined and interactive effects of multiple factors....
... declaring that ‘it was important to keep things in perspective. Russia doesn’t make anything…Immigrants aren’t ... ... this of course ignores the true point and purpose behind this war of words: President Obama is quite frankly flummoxed that President ... ... shown restraint. Let us hope that in this particular schoolyard media showdown some of this will actually start to rub off on President ... ... get serious and move beyond these lame attempts to conjure a neo-Cold War that is in the interests and objectives of no one. Well,...
New sanctions were levied against Russia on July 16th by both the United States and the European Union. America has taken ... ... us who have followed this conflict for the past half year, we have had heard this accusation at least half a dozen times. Sometimes there has been evidence to partially... ... concern in the West is that they will try to hunker down for ‘extended urban warfare.’ The irony of course is that the force in Eastern Ukraine so far responsible...
