international relations

From Russia with Mistrust

Exasperating, Mischievous, Sometimes Constructive: What Do We Do About Vladimir?

It is hard to imagine a more interesting—and confusing—time to take stock of modern U.S.-Russian relations. My Twitter feed is currently ablaze with reports of the possibility that the #US will adopt the #Russia plan for solving the current #Syria crisis. At the same time, Vladimir Putin has just critiqued President Obama on the op-ed page of The New York Times. These seemingly unexpected and contradictory developments reflect the fact that there are two fundamental realities shaping the bilateral relationship today: Russian domestic politics and the fact that both nations continue to …

by Joshua A. Tucker |

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What Can the Balkans Teach Us About Intervening in Syria?

I Led the NATO Campaign in the Kosovo War. We Learned Some Valuable Lessons From It.

by Wesley Clark |

Once again, the United States appears poised to strike with its military forces in the Mideast, this time to sanction Syria’s regime for deploying chemical weapons against its own citizens. …

Former World Bank Executive Director Moisés Naím

Who Needs a Band-Aid When You’ve Got a Stone in Your Medicine Cabinet?

Moisés Naím is the former executive director of the World Bank, the former editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, and was Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry in the early 1990s. An …

What’s Mexico’s Real Story?

Two Nations Indivisible

by Shannon K. O’Neil |

Is Mexico a growing middle-class juggernaut whose economy can only bolster ours, or a country engulfed by a drug war that threatens U.S. national security? Council on Foreign Relations Latin …

Wooed by Mexico

Our Neighbor’s Transformation, and My Own

by Shannon K. O’Neil |

As my plane touched down at Benito Juárez airport in early 1994, I didn’t know that it was the start of a 20-year relationship with Mexico.

I was coming to work …

The Powers That Don’t Be

Moisés Naím Discusses Our Increasing Global Ineffectuality

by Sarah Rothbard |

Fierce contests for and enormous shifts in power are happening all across the world and all around us—whether it’s wars for control in the Middle East or shifts in power …


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