17 May 2010
David Kramer, the current Eurasian affairs talking head at the German Marshall Fund and a former member of the team that concocted the Bush administration’s glorious Russia policy, has an op-ed out in the Washington Post. He attacks Barack Obama for pursuing a “Russia only” approach to Eastern Europe, “neglecting and even abandoning other countries [...]
21 Apr 2010
I feel duty-bound to dedicate at least one real post to the ‘New START’ treaty, signed this month in Prague. This blog, after all, is called “A Good Treaty,” so it seems a little silly not to comment on the most important U.S.-Russian bilateral agreement in more than a decade. In the words of Hans [...]
24 Feb 2010
A couple of days ago, Foreign Policy Magazine published a new article by David Hoffman, author of The Oligarchs and, more recently, The Dead Hand, a book about, in Hoffman’s own words, the history of “the end of the Cold War arms race.” Don’t get too excited, though, about the words “the end.” Four paragraphs [...]
14 Feb 2010
Robert Kagan — decorated academician, Carnegie Endowment talking head, and older brother of Fred Kagan, ‘author’ of the Iraqi and Afghan Surges — has an article out in the current edition of World Affairs. In ‘Obama’s Year One,’ Kagan tries to debunk the concept that the President’s foreign policy is realist, arguing instead that it [...]
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