CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Stephen Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign ...

Forty years ago, in November 1985, two of the world’s most powerful leaders met for the first time. With Cold War tensions running high and the nuclear arms race dominating global politics, US ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... There are specific things one can take issue with when it comes to Donald Trump’s efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine and lower ...

Ronald Reagan’s best friend is freedom. It did most of the work for him in Geneva. It was on his shoulder when he was walking Mikhail Gorbachev down toward the lake. It was tiptoeing around the room ...

Soviet diplomats frequently call at the State Department. Particularly since the Geneva summit, there has been a great deal of mid-level diplomacy. So there was no reason to expect anything out of the ...