By Victor Cha, Ellen Kim and Marie DuMond, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Victor Cha is former director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council and author of “The Impossible State: North Korea’s Past and Future” (Ecco, April 2012). Ellen Kim is a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Marie […]
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US Actions Make China-Russia Alliance Appealing
22/03/2012(Global Times) As US aircraft carrier groups gather in the Arabian Sea, a showdown between Iran and the West is rumbling on. If a war erupts, this will be another upshot of the US pursuit of absolute national security. Mainstream forces in Washington are trying to sell a ludicrous standpoint to the American people: that […]
China’s Economy a Bigger Worry Than Yuan Value
22/03/2012By Samuel Sherrade | New America Foundation Complaints from U.S. leaders about China’s currency manipulation may be misplaced and leave America more vulnerable to a Chinese economic decline. Rather than stoke the fire over currency manipulation, U.S. officials should consider reducing exposure to China through trade and financial flows and assess what stimulus and […]
Why Putin’s Re-Election Means Turbulence Ahead
8/03/2012The End of the ‘Reset’ Why Putin’s Re-Election Means Turbulence Ahead Andrew C. Kuchins – March 1, 2012 (photo by Wolfgang Wildner / flickr) When it comes to Russia’s political future, the only guarantee is uncertainty. Yes, on Sunday Vladimir Putin will be elected president of Russia for a six-year term, with a comfortable majority […]
Dai Xu – China and Russia should be isolated and surrounded the U.S. alliance to break the resistance killing the weak U.S.
21/02/2012Just entered 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a focus on China and Iran’s new military strategy. Then announced that the U.S. side of the provocation and the Philippines in the South China Sea, China’s exercises, while three aircraft carriers cruising the Persian Gulf; EU has also announced the oil embargo against Iran. United States […]
David C. Gompert and Michael Kofman – Raising Our Sights: Russian-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability
21/02/2012The United States and Russia have sought to reduce the danger of nuclear war by limiting offensive strategic capabilities through negotiated agreements, relying on mutual deterrence based on reciprocal threats and the corresponding fear of retaliation. Although nuclear arsenals have been pared, this is fundamentally the same way the United States and Soviet Union sought […]
Update The Software of the Russian Soul?
19/02/2012Open Democracy 14 October 2010 Andrei Konchalovsky, Government attempts to moderniseRussiaare doomed because the Russian mindset remains stuck in an unchanging peasant mentality, laments film-director Andrei Konchalovsky. No change will be possible without reloading our spiritual software, but do we want to change? About the author Andrei Konchalovsky is theatre, film director and scriptwriter. His films […]
Andreas Umland – How to Make Russia Democratic?
14/02/2012Foreign Policy Journal Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the “White Revolution” will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts by Andreas Umland February 7, 2012 Russia’s relationship to democracy has been historically closer than some people, both in and outside ofRussia, assume. As early as […]
Alexandr Pyatkov – Features and Padoxes of the Current Stage of the Russian Electoral Process
14/02/2012A. Pjatkov, Doctor of History, professor of Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service at the President of the Russian Federation, the department of State and Municipal Construction. We are at the last electoral cycle, when parliamentary elections directly flow […]
Andreas Umland – How to Make Russia Democratic?
8/02/2012Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the “White Revolution” will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts. Russia’s relationship to democracy has been historically closer than some people, both in and outside ofRussia, assume. As early as December of 1825, Tsarist Russia experienced an abortive palace […]