Queen Elizabeth II was Britain’s lead ambassador
She traveled to 117 countries and hosted countless high-level visitors
Gorbachev didn’t set out to open the door to democracy
The former Soviet leader learned the hard way that reining in political changes is harder than making them
There’s a reason Putin can be so aggressive: Oil.
Putin’s personalist rule leaves few domestic checks on his power.
In words and deeds, Putin shows he’s rejecting even Soviet-era borders
His speech this week makes it clear he’s out to restore “historic Russia”
Will it be ‘happy talk’ — or will Trump and Putin focus on arms control and other critical issues?
[caption id="attachment_75621" align="aligncenter" width="960"] President Trump shakes hands with Russian
Trump just canceled a high-stakes summit. In 1972, Nixon almost did the same.
[caption id="attachment_73886" align="aligncenter" width="960"] President Richard Nixon, center left, is
This is why presidents want back channels and how it can go wrong
[caption id="attachment_58931" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Secret intelligence suggests that Jared Kushner
Trump may be borrowing Nixon’s ‘back channel’ strategy in his contacts with Russia
News that the president-elect’s son, Donald Trump Jr., met with
The Soviet Union made it hard for republics to leave — so why didn’t the EU?
[caption id="attachment_45040" align="aligncenter" width="960"] British Prime Minister Theresa May, left,
How Putin needs to play nice with markets
[caption id="attachment_7562" align="aligncenter" width="620" special=""] Source: Factset[/caption] Erik Gartzke is
Why Ukraine’s Yanukovych fell but so many analysts (including me) predicted he would survive
Joshua Tucker: The following is a guest post from University
An Avalanche is Coming
Nothing looked more impervious to revolutionary change than Brezhnev’s Soviet
What do legislatures in authoritarian regimes do?
No, this post is not going to feature another picture
Stirrings in Russia? Protest and the Economy
The popular perception of Russia these days is of a