Donald Trump Fawns over Vladmir Putin, Helsinki, 2018. Official Kremlin photograph, via Wikimedia Commons When I was but a lad, it was still quite common for foreign-policy hawks to invoke.
I know that there's nothing particularly new about regimes using state power to reward supportive oligarchs and corporations while destroying opponents. But the current "global patrimonial wave" — and its.
I interviewed Dr. Samuel Ramani about how the 2022 invasion of Ukraine fits into the broader picture of Russian politics and Russian interventions. Rahami recently finished his dissertation on the.
Naval Historical Center photo 96974, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Paul's post about David Remnick's interview of Stephen Kotkin reminds me of another interview that Kotkin recorded in February. In.
Source: The Kremlin I've got a newish, short piece up at the website for Exit from Hegemony. As is my wont, I'm cross-posting it here. In The National Interest, Richard Javad Heydarian writes that: For.
Basically everyone that I know with national-security experience, or even academic knowledge, was deeply disturbed about the lack of documentation of Trump's Helsinki meeting with Putin. It turns out that.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Although I am always skeptical of moment of journalists using moments of crisis to write of leaders, domestic or international. After all, oil is.
Dear Dr. Lemieux, Please refrain from declaring my victory in the upcoming Presidential election "inevitable." Yours truly, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
