Материалы: April, 2015

China and Russia vs. the United States?

Just how likely are China and Russia to ally against the U.S.? By Huiyun Feng The rising tensions between Russia and the West, especially the United States, over Ukraine provide a constant reminder of the Cold War, when the two superpowers fought proxy conflicts for spheres of influence. A key question in the current game of […]

Beijing Strikes Back in US-China Tech Wars

Foreign tech firms will either have to comply with intrusive surveillance requirements or risk being substituted by Chinese alternatives. By Ankit Panda China’s new draft anti-terror legislation has sent waves across the U.S. tech community. If there is a brewing tech war between U.S. and China over government surveillance backdoors and a preference for indigenous software, China’s new […]

Think of Russia as an ordinary petrostate, not an extraordinary superpower

By Maria Snegovaya The Kremlin’s motivation in the Ukrainian conflict has split scholars. Is Russia a greedy state ideologically driven to expand or a declining insecure superpower defending itself against NATO? Realist scholars (for example, see these recent pieces by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt) argue that the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict was provoked by NATO expansion into Georgia […]