Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Security, Eurasia
America’s next president will have to start all over with Russia.
In recent weeks, I have had the honor to attend different daylong seminars convened to ponder Russia’s future under Vladimir Putin and the future of U.S.-Russia relations: a “Russia Experts Meeting” hosted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, bringing together some of America’s leading specialists in the Russia field, and a “Russia Futures” project, which assembled members of the Naval War College’s faculty who study various different aspects of Russia, Europe and Eurasia policy.
I have left these events with a growing sense of pessimism. Russia …read more
Source: The National Interest