The Rewards of a Larger NATO

By Ronald Asmus Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose speech at the Munich security conference on Feb. 10 has caused some to revive their arguments against enlarging NATO. The policy was wrongheaded because it produced the nationalist policies that emanate from Moscow today, they say. NATO expansion was a bad idea, they argue, because it enraged […]

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Russian-U.S. ties hit new low

By Steven Lee Myers International Herald Tribune MOSCOW: The good news about President Vladimir Putin’s acerbic assault on American foreign policy in Munich last weekend is that the bad old days of global ideological confrontation will probably remain in the dustbin of history. The bad news is that Cold War II could be just as […]

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