NYU Abu Dhabi Institute hosts lively debate on Russia-Ukraine relations

Anastassia Kostrioukova Friday, March 6th, 2015

On February 25, 2015, a large crowd convened at NYU’s Abu Dhabi Institute for a panel on the current relations between Ukraine, Russia and the West. The panel, titled “Russia-Ukraine Relations: A Neighborly Spat or Back to the Cold War?,” was held in collaboration with the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and was convened by Leonid Peisakhin, Assistant Professor of Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Peisakhin was joined in discussion by Yanni Kotsonis (Director of Jordan Center and Professor of History at NYU), Joshua Tucker (Professor of Politics at NYU) and Arturas Rozenas (Assistant Professor of Politics at NYU).

Nemtsov and the Smoking Gun

Eliot Borenstein Monday, March 2nd, 2015

In the absence of facts, the speculation about possible culprits says far less about reality than it does about the speculators’ worldviews.

Anna Arutunyan explains the Putin mystique

Ilaria Parogni Friday, November 14th, 2014

On Nov. 5 journalist and author Anna Arutunyan joined Russia expert and Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Mark Galeotti in conversation for an event at the School of Professional Studies. The event, hosted in collaboration with the Jordan Center, focused on the figure of president Vladimir Putin and was the second installment of Revisiting Russia, a three-part series of talks aimed at discussing Russia’s future and its place in the world.

Snowden in Moscow: The Interview

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

“I’ve been recognized every now and then. It’s always in computer stores. It’s something like brain associations, because I’ll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they’re like, “Snowden?!””

It’s the economy, durachok! A Snapshot of the Current Mess

Yanni Kotsonis Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

Foreign policy is completely related to the economy. Internationally Russia has been finding itself less and less capable, less able to exert lasting influence.

The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities

Stephen F. Cohen Thursday, July 3rd, 2014

Among the crucial questions rarely discussed in the US political-media establishment: What is the role of the “neo-fascist” factor in Kiev’s “anti-terrorist” ideology and military operations?

Cold War Against Russia—Without Debate

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen Thursday, May 1st, 2014

No modern precedent exists for the shameful complicity of the American political-media elite at this fateful turning point.

Cold War Again: Who’s Responsible?

Stephen F. Cohen Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

The East-West confrontation over Ukraine, which led to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea but long predated it, is potentially the worst international crisis in more than fifty years—and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is possible, but time may be running out.

Dangerous Liaisons: Ukraine and Western Slavists

Rossen Djagalov Monday, March 10th, 2014

Writing in the middle of a crisis is always dangerous.

How Obama can avert another Cold War

Stephen F. Cohen Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Why is another Cold War possible two decades after the Soviet Union ended?

America’s New Cold War With Russia

Stephen F. Cohen Friday, January 18th, 2013

With the full support of a feckless policy elite and an uncritical media establishment, Washington is slipping, if not plunging, into a new cold war with Moscow.

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