by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 16, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Even during the darkest days of the Cold War, leaders of the US and the Soviet Union met to discuss areas of agreement and disagreement to keep international conflicts from escalating out of control. Such was Secretary John Kerry’s recent...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 25, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis In a talk in Washington, DC last April, Strobe Talbot, Russian expert, journalist and former Deputy Secretary of State, described Vladimir Putin as a consummate risk taker, an excellent tactician but a poor strategist. Putin’s dream of...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis In a recent post on the Snowden Case, Dmitri Trenin of Carnegie’s Moscow Institute asks why US relations with China – America’s real rival – are so much less contentious than they are with Russia. It’s a good question. Is it the differences in...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 26, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis It’s not quite cucumber time in Russia. That’s at its height in August. The days are long; the nights are short but I suppose that doesn’t matter much for someone holed up in Sheremetyevo’s transit lounge unless of course there are no blackout...
by Brian Kastner | Feb 7, 2013 | Monitor
Since the creation of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act (Nunn-Lugar Act) in 1991, the United States and Russia worked together to address the threat of nuclear terrorism. But these efforts require further funding and support from both governments, if we are to...
