Does Russia Have a Future?: Collected (Nonconformist) Essays on Russian, American and European Relations, 2013-15 1514665336, 9781514665336
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
1. Does Russia Have a Future?
2. A Russianist Who Cares: Thane Gustafson’s Wheel of Fortune
3. America’s Neocon Mainstream
4. The Indefatigable Bill Browder: Selling the Magnitsky Act to Europe
5. Vote rigging in Estonia: Anti-Russian freedom fighter falls on her own sword
6. Russia’s Finest Hour
7. De-funding Title VIII Financial Aid to Russian Language Studies: a blessing in disguise?
8. Bill Browder, Master of Bait and Switch
9. Ukraine, between East and West: What Lessons can be Drawn?
10. Rebuttal to Timothy Snyder’s essay on Ukraine in The New York Review of Books
11. Making sense of Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation Address, 12 December 2013
12. Ukraine-Russia Rapprochement, 17 December 2013: Point, Set, Match
13. Push-back to Sylvie Kauffmann’s op-ed page essay “How Europe Can Help Kiev” in The International New York Times
14. Victoria Nuland: whence the ill wind blows
15. Cool under Fire: Measured Responses to the ‘Trash Sochi, Trash Russia, Trash Putin’ Propaganda Offensive
16. Russian State Television and the Information War
17. Two peoples under one national roof: Ukraine’s constitutional dilemma and solutions made in Belgium
18. The Bear is Back? Meet the New Mischa!
19. Foreign Affairs magazine as a comic strip: the 28 February online issue
20. Vladimir Putin, Clausewitz and Sun Tzu: Grammar lessons for today
21. EU-US Sanctions and the Russian Annexation of Crimea
22. Latvia’s 300,000 Non-Citizens and the Ukrainian Crisis Today
23. ‘Apologists for Putin’ and America’s discussion of the Ukraine crisis
24. Vladimir Putin’s Speech to the Federal Assembly on Crimean Accession: Commentary
25. The War Party in Washington and the Sanctions Toolkit
26. Preparing the Way for the New G-8
27. Barack Obama’s Speech in Bozar: Is there a New Cold War?
28. Further lessons in Realpolitik: last chance to engage with Russia
29. 4th EU-Africa Summit and the Ukrainian Crisis: gossip in the corridors
30. Creation of U.S. and European Chapters of a Committee on East-West Accord: A call to men and women of good will and common sense
31. What your cleaning lady can explain to you about the Ukrainian crisis
32. The uncivil war being waged in America’s East Coast-based, liberal magazines of commentary
33. Latvia’s failed U.S.-inspired policies towards Russia and Russians
34. Foreign Affairs magazine, May-June 2014 issue: The false debate over “The Return of Geopolitics”
35. An Open Letter to Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger
36. Angela Merkel’s Ultimatum
37. The Worm Turns: Russian Pundits on the Ukrainian Crisis and Western Sanctions
38. House of Cards and the Obama Administration’s Policy on Russia
39. Speech to the US-Russia Forum, Hotel Arbat, Moscow, 8 September 2014
40. Foreign Affairs magazine, September-October 2014 issue: “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” John Mearsheimer
41. Khodorkovsky for President!
42. American civil society - hostage to the sanctions policy
43. Alphabet Soup is Good for You: United Left in the European Parliament
44. Twilight of the Gods: George Soros in Brussels
45. Foreign Affairs magazine, November-December 2014: the Mearsheimer Debate
46. The American Peace Movement and the New Cold War
47. Richard Haass: The Absent Voice at Valdai – Sochi
48. The Fragile Triangle: The West, Ukraine and Russia
49. American War Plans Would Fail if Europe Stumbles
50. Putin, the Public Speaker
51. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mitteleuropa, or why Germany is as responsible for the growing disaster in Ukraine as the USA
52. Stratfor’s George Friedman and Realism in American Foreign Policy
53. Why the Minsk-2 Settlement of the Ukrainian Crisis Will Hold
54. Merkel, the Peacemaker
55. Boris Nemtsov, R.I.P., 27 February 2015
56. A youtube.com documentary worth viewing: Round Table in Brussels 2 March 2015
57. A Push-back to the CEPS Task Force Report on “More Union in European Defence”
58. Crimea. A Way Home: Important Public Diplomacy Messages from Russia on the Ukraine Crisis
59. Speech to the World Russia Forum
60. A fresh look at Strobe Talbott’s The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
61. Moscow’s 70th Anniversary Victory Day Celebrations: as reported by a fly on the wall
62. 2015 Schlangenbad Dialogue: the East-West Confrontation in Microcosm
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
1. Does Russia Have a Future?
2. A Russianist Who Cares: Thane Gustafson’s Wheel of Fortune
3. America’s Neocon Mainstream
4. The Indefatigable Bill Browder: Selling the Magnitsky Act to Europe
5. Vote rigging in Estonia: Anti-Russian freedom fighter falls on her own sword
6. Russia’s Finest Hour
7. De-funding Title VIII Financial Aid to Russian Language Studies: a blessing in disguise?
8. Bill Browder, Master of Bait and Switch
9. Ukraine, between East and West: What Lessons can be Drawn?
10. Rebuttal to Timothy Snyder’s essay on Ukraine in The New York Review of Books
11. Making sense of Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation Address, 12 December 2013
12. Ukraine-Russia Rapprochement, 17 December 2013: Point, Set, Match
13. Push-back to Sylvie Kauffmann’s op-ed page essay “How Europe Can Help Kiev” in The International New York Times
14. Victoria Nuland: whence the ill wind blows
15. Cool under Fire: Measured Responses to the ‘Trash Sochi, Trash Russia, Trash Putin’ Propaganda Offensive
16. Russian State Television and the Information War
17. Two peoples under one national roof: Ukraine’s constitutional dilemma and solutions made in Belgium
18. The Bear is Back? Meet the New Mischa!
19. Foreign Affairs magazine as a comic strip: the 28 February online issue
20. Vladimir Putin, Clausewitz and Sun Tzu: Grammar lessons for today
21. EU-US Sanctions and the Russian Annexation of Crimea
22. Latvia’s 300,000 Non-Citizens and the Ukrainian Crisis Today
23. ‘Apologists for Putin’ and America’s discussion of the Ukraine crisis
24. Vladimir Putin’s Speech to the Federal Assembly on Crimean Accession: Commentary
25. The War Party in Washington and the Sanctions Toolkit
26. Preparing the Way for the New G-8
27. Barack Obama’s Speech in Bozar: Is there a New Cold War?
28. Further lessons in Realpolitik: last chance to engage with Russia
29. 4th EU-Africa Summit and the Ukrainian Crisis: gossip in the corridors
30. Creation of U.S. and European Chapters of a Committee on East-West Accord: A call to men and women of good will and common sense
31. What your cleaning lady can explain to you about the Ukrainian crisis
32. The uncivil war being waged in America’s East Coast-based, liberal magazines of commentary
33. Latvia’s failed U.S.-inspired policies towards Russia and Russians
34. Foreign Affairs magazine, May-June 2014 issue: The false debate over “The Return of Geopolitics”
35. An Open Letter to Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger
36. Angela Merkel’s Ultimatum
37. The Worm Turns: Russian Pundits on the Ukrainian Crisis and Western Sanctions
38. House of Cards and the Obama Administration’s Policy on Russia
39. Speech to the US-Russia Forum, Hotel Arbat, Moscow, 8 September 2014
40. Foreign Affairs magazine, September-October 2014 issue: “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” John Mearsheimer
41. Khodorkovsky for President!
42. American civil society - hostage to the sanctions policy
43. Alphabet Soup is Good for You: United Left in the European Parliament
44. Twilight of the Gods: George Soros in Brussels
45. Foreign Affairs magazine, November-December 2014: the Mearsheimer Debate
46. The American Peace Movement and the New Cold War
47. Richard Haass: The Absent Voice at Valdai – Sochi
48. The Fragile Triangle: The West, Ukraine and Russia
49. American War Plans Would Fail if Europe Stumbles
50. Putin, the Public Speaker
51. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mitteleuropa, or why Germany is as responsible for the growing disaster in Ukraine as the USA
52. Stratfor’s George Friedman and Realism in American Foreign Policy
53. Why the Minsk-2 Settlement of the Ukrainian Crisis Will Hold
54. Merkel, the Peacemaker
55. Boris Nemtsov, R.I.P., 27 February 2015
56. A youtube.com documentary worth viewing: Round Table in Brussels 2 March 2015
57. A Push-back to the CEPS Task Force Report on “More Union in European Defence”
58. Crimea. A Way Home: Important Public Diplomacy Messages from Russia on the Ukraine Crisis
59. Speech to the World Russia Forum
60. A fresh look at Strobe Talbott’s The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
61. Moscow’s 70th Anniversary Victory Day Celebrations: as reported by a fly on the wall
62. 2015 Schlangenbad Dialogue: the East-West Confrontation in Microcosm
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