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The Putin ProblemThomas Graham, Rajan Menon Sep 12, 2017 Boston Review The West thinks of Putin as an aberration among recent Russian rulers, but he stands in line with them. Understanding that continuity is vital to preventing the U.S.–Russian relationship from deteriorating further. The Russian–U.S. relationship has yet to hit rock bottom, although it continues to..

Letter From - Autumn 2017 Israel: Occupational Hazards Confronting academic freedom and racism in an oppressive state (israeltourism/Flickr)By Feisal G. MohamedThe American ScholarSeptember 5, 2017 “How about this: as an Arab, as an Arab, you should not set foot in that place.” So said my mother when visiting from Egypt last fall, gesturing upward from her solar plexus as ..

Understanding Russia’s War Stories Putin’s foreign policy is rooted in an epic myth of betrayal and redemption.By Sophie Pinkham New Republic September 26, 2017 Photograph by Larry Towell/Magnum A World War II monument in Saur-Mogila, Ukraine, scarred by fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists in 2014. The past year has seen the greatest panic ove..

Book ReviewsHow Israel Went Nuclear The father of Israel’s nuclear deterrent reveals how it was built. An exclusive excerpt from No Room For Small Dreams, Shimon Peres’ posthumous autobiography. By Shimon PeresTabletSeptember 11, 2017 • 12:00 AM It was October 24, 1956, at the villa in Sèvres where the French and Israeli leadership were meeting to finalize the p..

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The 'New Cold War' Was Never Inevitable In a decade, today’s Russian Peril will probably seem as deranged as the Red Scares of the 1920s and the 1950s. Michael Lind The American Interest August 23, 2017 September-October 2017 Note: this article is part of a symposium on U.S.-Russia relations included in the September/October 2017 issue of the National Interest. On May 2, 1998..

He is vain to an extraordinary degree,’ says Adams’s biographer Malachi O’Doherty says Sinn Féin leader one of world’s most successful politiciansIrish Timesabout 11 hours ago Gerry Moriarty Malachi O’Doherty signing copies of his book Gerry Adams – An Unauthorised Life. Photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press The sentence in the last chapter of Malachi..

Who’s Afraid of the Russian Soul?Hannah Gas August 31 The Baffler Russophobia reveals more about us than about them At the 2001 Slovenia Summit, President George W. Bush gazed into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eyes for the first time and got “a sense of his soul.” Bush sensed that Putin was “straightforward and trustworthy”—which only proves that soul-g..

Why India and Pakistan hate each other Three score and ten years after their acrimonious split, India and Pakistan remain at daggers drawn. Max Rodenbeck asks if they can ever make up Jul 22nd 2017 The Economist EVERY AFTERNOON AT sunset, at a point midway along the arrow-straight road between Amritsar and Lahore, rival squads of splendidly uniformed soldiers strut and stomp a..

The Costs of Ignoring Russia Current mutual hostility threatens an explosive confrontation. Dimitri K. Simes August 13, 2017 The National Interest Note: this article is part of a symposium on U.S.-Russia relations included in the September/October 2017 issue of the National Interest. Improving the dangerously unstable U.S.-Russia relationship will be very difficult, but it is i..