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Debate: How Should the US Respond to the SolarWinds Breach?

RM Staff April 07, 2021
Paul Kolbe, Erica D. Borghard and Anatol Lieven debate what an appropriate response to the massive cyber operation attributed to Russia might look like.
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RM Staff March 01, 2021
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RM Staff November 12, 2020
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RM Staff May 06, 2020
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Debate: ‘Spheres of Influence’—a Reality to Be Faced or an Atavism to Be Rejected?

RM Staff March 05, 2020
As competition among great powers intensifies, so, too, could debates about spheres of influence. Do countries have a right to claim spheres of influence in their neighborhoods? Paul Saunders and Stev...
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RM Staff April 19, 2019
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Russia and China—Alliance or Dalliance? And What Will This Mean for the West?

RM Staff February 04, 2019
Relations between Moscow and Beijing have been growing increasingly cozy, but what’s stronger—the convergence of their grievances or the divergence in their national interests? Three experts debate.
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Debate: Is Russia in Decline?

RM Staff August 22, 2018
Is Vladimir Putin’s Russia rising, declining or stagnating? If it is rising or declining, then compared to whom? Answers to these questions are of fundamental importance for the U.S. and the global or...
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The Collapsing Russian Defense Budget and Other Fairy Tales

RM Staff May 22, 2018
Respected media have reported that Moscow slashed defense spending by 20 percent from 2016 to 2017. But defense analyst Michael Kofman shows the claim is wrong, stemming from an overlooked pay-down of...
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Debate: Can Russia Be a Viable Counterterrorism Partner for the United States?

RM Staff February 08, 2018
The upcoming fifth anniversary of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing serves as a reminder that U.S.-Russian counterterrorism cooperation was not easy even when the general relationship between the two...