by Russ Wellen | May 6, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
At Global Security Newswire, Diane Barnes writes: “The current political environment is anything but conducive” to achieving significant nuclear-arms curbs, according to the … “Deep Cuts Commission” … composed of 21 experts from Russia, the United States and Germany....
by Paul H. Rosenberg | Mar 18, 2014 | Redev, Uncategorized
As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded over the past few weeks, it’s hard for Americans not to see Vladimir Putin as the big villain. But the history of the region is a history of competing villains vying against one another; and one school of villains—the...
by Anton Moyseyenko | Mar 17, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
Russian officials have given one principal justification for intervening in neighboring Ukraine: their supposed responsibility to protect Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population. Russian president Vladimir Putin explained as much to U.S. president Barack Obama...
by Stephen Zunes | Mar 13, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
It’s been interesting to observe the large numbers of people who suddenly think they’re experts on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine—both those on the left who blame it on Obama for intervening too much and those on the right who blame it on Obama for not intervening...
by John Feffer | Mar 5, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. The Cold War is history. For those growing up today, the Cold War is as distant in time as World War II was for those came of age in the 1970s. In both cases, empires collapsed and maps...
