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H-Diplo|ISSF Commentary “Fear and the Logic of Othering: Decoding the Biden Administration’s 2022 National Security Strategy”

November 11, 2022November 9, 2022 By Giuseppe Paparella

As result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration delayed the release of the new National Security Strategy (NSS) until October 2022.[1] At first glance, it is impossible to avoid noting that the entire NSS—which analysts have described as a disappointing document and “a laundry list of challenges, threats, and responses”[2] —revolves around…

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Policy Series 2021-60: Trump and Russia—Less than Meets the Eye

February 4, 2022January 28, 2022 By Angela Stent

After all the controversy, accusations, angry tweets, impeachment hearings, and conspiracy theories, how is the Trump administration’s Russia policy to be assessed? Russia consumed an unprecedented amount of domestic energy during Trump’s presidency, casting a shadow over the White House during the four years Trump lived there. And yet there has been scant systematic analysis…

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Policy Series 2021-30: The Biden Administration and Russia: Digging Out of a Deep Hole

May 13, 2021May 8, 2021 By Robert Legvold

After President Donald Trump’s four years in office the U.S.-Russian relationship ended where it began: hostile, recriminatory, unproductive, and disengaged.  Thus, the Biden administration starts from where roughly the Obama administration left off, only the hole is deeper, because Russia’s cyber intrusions have added a paralyzing dimension to the mix of problems.  But where precisely…

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Policy Series 3-1- Reviewing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2020

February 7, 2020February 1, 2020 By Fabian Lüscher

The 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the tenth such event, will be held from 27 April to 22 May in New York. One of the most important and controversial pillars of the global nuclear order will be evaluated there. The NPT was opened for…

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Article Review 130 on “Partner Politics: Russia, China, and the Challenge of Extending US Hegemony after the Cold War.”

December 20, 2019December 12, 2019 By Huiyun Feng

There are good reasons to study Russia, China, and U.S. hegemony now. Facing common threats from the West, Russia and China have been moving closer since the 2010s. Are they going to finally form an alliance against the United States.? Will these rising powers seriously challenge or shake up the liberal world order that is…

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H-Diplo Roundtable XX-14 on When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

December 2, 2018January 22, 2021 By Jeffrey A. Engel, James Graham Wilson, James Goldgeier, Christopher A. Preble, Sergey Radchenko, Timothy Sayle

More time has transpired between the fall of the Berlin Wall and today than the entire duration of that iconic Cold War barrier. Meanwhile, George H.W. Bush, the main subject of Jeffrey Engel’s When the World Seemed New, became the longest-living U.S. president, while there are undergraduates this semester who were born during the presidency…

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Policy Series: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Trump Era

September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 By Robert Legvold

In the first half year of the new Trump administration, United States-Russian relations sped through a series of phases only to end suspended basically where they were on Election Day, 8 November 2016—badly damaged, friction-laden, and immobile. Whatever muddled hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin and his entourage may have had for better times with Trump…

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Policy Series: A Double Standard?

July 19, 2017January 22, 2021 By Marc Trachtenberg

The American political class has been working itself into a lather over the hacking of a number of email accounts, evidently by Russian intelligence, and the subsequent leaking of information from those emails during the recent presidential election campaign. Those leaks, it is said, hurt Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and might well have cost…

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Policy Roundtable 1-7: Russia and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

March 26, 2017June 30, 2018 By Joshua Rovner, Jon R. Lindsay, Kimberly Marten, Lindsey A. O’Rourke

No one is sure what effect Russia had on the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community and private sector cybersecurity firms are confident that Russian intelligence agencies sponsored efforts to steal and release information from the Democratic National Committee, and from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The stolen emails were mostly…

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Policy Series: The Failed Promises of 1989 and the Politics of 2016

March 7, 2017December 24, 2020 By Jonathan Sperber

On the night of November 9, 1989, it was apparent to everyone on the scene in Berlin, and to spectators across the world, watching on TV, that history had reached a turning point. The ramifications of the opening of the Berlin Wall, as was also widely understood at the time, would not be limited to…

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