Emerging Risks

The administration struggles to reassure Eastern European allies that it won't sell them out to Russia.

On Thursday, 10,000 Russian troops began a drill simulating the massive use of nuclear missiles.

There is still a real risk that crisis will metastasize into conflict.

Nouriel Roubini thinks the rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine is going to result in a cold war between the West and Russia. This could escalate.

Rachel Marsden: PARIS -- A Cold War is purely an intelligence war.

American policies toward Russia today echo the mistakes that led to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov.

Experts on both sides think they can turn up the pressure and prevail. This is dangerous.

The conflict between Russia and the West is evidence of a post-Cold War clash of worldviews that has never been resolved.

The Wall was a stark symbol of Russia projecting hard power into Europe — a dynamic that's on its way back.

Putin is launching "increasingly daring and increasingly stupid stunts."

Vladimir Putin sees West as gloating in post-Cold War era, trying to muscle into Russia's historical sphere of influence, analysts say.

Russia has passed the United States in the nuclear weapons category. Their new generation of tactical nuclear weapons is superior to ours, and they are expanding other capabilities. Which would be bad enough if our nuclear weapons actually worked well and were ready if we ever needed them. But we have some issues and no one wants to even work on them anymore, erroneously thinking that nuclear deterrence is an obsolete relict of the Cold War.

U.S. currently lacks strategy to counter political, information warfare threats from states and terrorists

Below is a transcript of tonight's monologue Russia has been chipping away at a master plan, a plan that few, if any, have even taken note of, and no one has shown you. You know the history. We’ve shown it to you, and the brain behind it all. Tonight, we’re going to try to show you what possibly co...

In The Wall Street Journal, Garry Kasparov writes that Islamists set the time machine to the Dark Ages. Putin dreams of czarist Russia. A common enemy: America.

Could a U.S. response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine provoke a confrontation that leads to a U.S.-Russian war?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has memorably called the breakup of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a tragedy, and that has led many to believe that he is hoping to restore the old USSR as he consolidates control within Russia and projects military power outward into Ukraine and beyond

A growing chorus of analysts and policymakers are sounding the alarm. Will the world hear them in time?

As America lurches from crisis to crisis, our foreign policy elites can't even agree on our principal adversary

As the Minsk accord seems to collapse, new military dangers loom.

The odds of a war, while remote, are no longer negligible.

On April 21, the Center hosted an event to discuss the new National Interest cover story “Russia and America: Stumbling to War,” by Graham Allison, Director ...

Russia had all but disappeared from the international arena in the last couple of weeks, particularly following the July 14 signing of the international de-nuclearization deal reached with Iran. Indeed, as long as the pause in the Ukraine war holds, Moscow’s opinions on international relations attract little attention because its ability to influence key global matters has shrunk to irrelevance. …

The 1987 Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles—known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty—was one of the most significant arms-reduction accomplishments of the Cold War era.

Here come Moscow's robots.

Edward Lucas reviews “Putinism” by Walter Laqueur and “Putin’s Russia” edited by Leon Aron.

Here comes Air-Sea-Swarm Battle?

War games show NATO’s eastern flank is vulnerable. To deter Moscow, the United States will need to deploy heavy armor on a large scale, a…