Russia

Abstract One of Donald Trump’s stated priorities when he becomes President is to kill the Nuclear Deal with Iran, one of the key legacies President Barack Obama wishes to leave. This article develops a memorandum for President Obama to...

Abstract Russia has proved a confounding counterpart to American political leaders over the past decade. To the veritable Rubik’s Cube that is today’s complex international security environment, American leaders too often react with simplism. Some seem unable or unwilling...

Abstract The most important national security challenge for the next president will be rebuilding a domestic consensus on America’s role in the world. Unless the president can answer fundamental questions voters are asking, she or he will be hobbled...

In These Pages This special issue of Orbis features articles by FPRI associates offering “advice to the next president.” Written before the election, these essays offer recommendations for national security affairs in general, as well as for regional issues....

In mid-December 2016, outgoing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon referred to Aleppo as a “synonym for hell“ and said that Adama Dieng, the U.N.'s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, warned of the risk of genocide there....

The Moshe Dayan Center The simmering Egyptian-Saudi tension burst into full view in mid-October when Egypt voted in favor of Russia’s draft resolution in the Security Council that emphasized that the battle for Aleppo was a fight against “terrorism,”...

The Wall Street Journal “Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart,” Russian President Vladimir Putin famously said in 2010. But he quickly added, “Whoever wants it back has no brain.” Mr. Putin isn’t usually known as...

The State of Israel, and the U.S.-Israeli relationship, now stand before new perils—potentially quite serious ones. You might suppose that I am referring to the implications of the recent U.S. abstention in the U.N. Security Council concerning Resolution 2334....

The assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey in an Ankara art gallery on December 19 was a dramatic event in every way. The ambassador had just begun speaking to the audience when a man pacing behind him,...

Foreign Affairs Of all the illusions surrounding U.S.–Russian relations, none is more dangerous than the notion that Russia can be a partner in the war on terrorism. Yet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears to be willing to make a massive...