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2 months ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Michael Brenes |Van Jackson |Andrei Kolesnikov
As it did in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency has prompted commentators in and outside of Washington to reflect on the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South. U.S. foreign policy is headed into a period of uncertainty, even if Trump’s first term provides a stark reference point for how he might manage the United States’ role in the world in the coming years.
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2 months ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Elliott Abrams |Michael Brenes |Van Jackson |Andrei Kolesnikov
As it did in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency has prompted commentators in and outside of Washington to reflect on the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South. U.S. foreign policy is headed into a period of uncertainty, even if Trump’s first term provides a stark reference point for how he might manage the United States’ role in the world in the coming years.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Andrei Kolesnikov |Alexandra Prokopenko |Alexander Cooley
Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the abyss and, with military means, defended its sovereignty, or rather what he calls sovereignty. Had he not done so, he asserts, Russia would have ceased to exist.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Andrei Kolesnikov
More than two and a half years after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” in Ukraine, the disproportionate effects on Russian youth have become clear. At home, young people face ubiquitous indoctrination and greater constraints on their freedom.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Andrei Kolesnikov
In Russia, the tradition of making fun of Soviet economic planning is almost as old as attempts to improve the economic system. “What would happen if socialism was built in the Sahara?”, an old joke asks. The answer: “At first, except for plans, there will be nothing. Then there will be sand shortages”.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Andrei Kolesnikov
In Russia, the tradition of making fun of Soviet economic planning is almost as old as attempts to improve the economic system. “What would happen if socialism was built in the Sahara?,” an old joke asks. The answer: “At first, except for plans, there will be nothing.
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May 17, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Andrei Kolesnikov
On May 7, as Russian President Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his fifth term in office, no one in Russia was prepared to protest. Given the country’s protracted and costly war in Ukraine, its creeping autocracy, and now this spring a major terrorist attack and widespread floods, outsiders may have wondered why people are not taking to the streets in large numbers and calling for an end to Putin’s rule. Are Russians simply unable to think and act for themselves?
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
platformraam.nl | Andrei Kolesnikov
The formation in Russia of a new concept of 'fairness' is testament to how long the war in Ukraine is expected to continue. The 'special military operation' is fast approaching a way of life, Andrei Kolesnikov argues for Carnegie Politika.
Vladimir Putin on a visit to Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation JSC. Photo: Kremlin
By Andrei Kolesnikov
Russian President Vladimir Putin is creating his own model of a just society and efficient economy.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Andrei Kolesnikov
Russian President Vladimir Putin is creating his own model of a just society and efficient economy. It marries political mobilization and emotional demobilization, alternates between talk of war and peace, and offers massive assistance to those working “for victory.”
To borrow terms coined by the German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse, Putin is at once engaged in the construction of a warfare state and a welfare state.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Andrei Kolesnikov
The Putin power model is heading into the March 2024 presidential election heavily reliant on two unstable mainstays: passive conformism and fear—the latter amplified by the sudden death of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny a month before the vote. While there is no doubt over the election’s outcome, the presidential campaign is already exposing the myth of complete consolidation around an irreplaceable president.
