Russia - Back to the USSR or Back to the Tsar (Winter 2014)
Putin’s Russia or Russia’s Putin
Students of Russian history can be divided into two groups: believers and skeptics. The first accepts the Russian poet-diplomat Fyodor Tyutchev's (1803-1873) assessment of...
America’s ‘Provocative Weakness’
As it continues its spiraling, across-the-board decline, the Russian Federation is becoming more relevant as a world power.
This development became most visible when President...
Moscow’s Middle East Policy
When Vladimir Putin first came to power over a decade ago, he launched a foreign policy initiative to improve Russia's relations with and influence...
The Permanent Crisis of the Russian State
A permanent legitimacy and capacity crisis exists today in Russia and the state's nature ensures that this cannot be otherwise. Indeed, we have arguably...
Implosion: The End of Russia and What it Means for America
It takes a certain chutzpah to write a book that announces something will—or won't—happen, and that if it does or does not happen the...
The Importance of America’s Strategic Deterrent
inFocus: Thank you very much, Senator Kyl, for agreeing to talk with the readers of inFOCUS. How would you characterize U.S.-Russian relations since the...
Letter from the Publisher
Whatever Russia is in the 21st Century, it is not boring. The Winter 2014 issue of inFOCUS is devoted to a fascinating country central...
