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impulsion. America's inward turn finds Europe introverted, unable to take a leadership role on any crisis but its own. EFTA00707096 Russia, under Vladimir Putin, is a spoiling power above all, still driven by the notion that, as he once put it, the Soviet Union's collapse was "the greatest geopolitical cata

t its own. EFTA00707096 Russia, under Vladimir Putin, is a spoiling power above all, still driven by

crisis but its own. EFTA00707096 Russia, under Vladimir Putin, is a spoiling power above all, still drive

ear-armed Iran. Kennedy faced an unpredictable, risk-taking and at times aggressive opponent in Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Yet he frustrated Khrushchev's ambitions and helped the U.S. avoid war through a combination of American nuclear superiority, firmness in defending national interests and a wil

stinian— Israeli peace talks Barakat El-Farra Article 4. Foreign Affairs The Czar of Brinkmanship Cynthia A. Roberts Article S. Al Jazeera Is Putin going all the wav in Ukraine? Peter Zalmayev Article 6. Project Syndicate The Techno-Political Transformation Klaus Schwab Article 7. Bloomber

master in the Kremlin may go all the way in his Ukrainian adventure and there is little stopping him; and 2) Ukraine is a crucial battleground for Vladimir Putin's emerging new doctrine and a decisive test of the western resolve. To the last point, I would add that Putin's emerging "New Russia" doctrine serves

o discern the precise limits to Russian President Vladimir Putin's willingness to escalate the crisis in Uk

es of crises from 1958 to 1962, exploiting the vulnerability of West Berlin to pressure the West into recognizing East Germany as a separate state. Khrushchev managed to block West German ambitions while demonstrating his resolve to hawks in the Kremlin and communist bloc. "I think the people with the str

nt after the Bay of Pigs failure and the botched Vienna summit, and then proceeded to test the American president from Cuba to Berlin, so President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now believe they are dealing with a dithering and indecisive American leader, and are calibrating their p

ident from Cuba to Berlin, so President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now bel

rican president from Cuba to Berlin, so President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

atollah Ali Khamenei now believe they are dealing with a dithering and indecisive American leader, and are calibrating their policies accordingly. Khrushchev was wrong about Kennedy, and President Obama's enemies are also underestimating him, but those underestimates EFTA_R1_00441468 EFTA01964627 can

utin Goes to War David Remnick March 1, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and autocrat, had a

costs, and recent history has shown that when it considers its interests at stake, Russia has been willing to pay the price. Even before President Vladimir V. Putin on Saturday publicly declared his intent to send Russian troops into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, Mr. Obama and his team were already discuss

ent Russian news site, how the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, in 1979, under the pretext of helping a "fraternal" ally in Kabul; to Parkhomenko, Putin's decision to couch his military action as the "protection" of Russians living in Crimea is an equally transparent pretext. The same goes for the d

billion in arms - just what a country like Egypt, where half the women can't read, needs. The whole meeting struck me as so 1960s, so Nasser meets Khrushchev — two strongmen bucking each other up in the age of strong people and superempowered individuals. Rather than discuss arms sales, Sisi and Putin s