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1 day ago | 
michaelmcfaul.substack.com | Michael A. McFaul
For more than three decades, the United States has supported democratic Ukraine. That was true in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union; in 2004 during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution; in 2013-14 during Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea; and again in 2022, after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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3 days ago | 
michaelmcfaul.substack.com | Michael A. McFaul
Secretary of State called the leaked memo about the State Department’s restructuring ‘fake news.’ I hope that’s true because the ideas outlined in that memo would be disastrous for American national interests. We cannot compete effectively with China worldwide without an effective State Department that is present in as many places as feasible.
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1 week ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Ray Takeyh |Alexander Cooley |Rose Gottemoeller |Michael A. McFaul
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those countries’ governments and publics to express solidarity with Ukraine and denounce Russian attempts to reclaim territory and deny Ukraine’s sovereignty.
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1 week ago | 
rsn.org | Michael A. McFaul
Trump’s overtures to Vladimir Putin are not just morally wrong but damaging to the US’s long-term interests. I just mailed off the final chapter of my new book on competition between autocratic and democratic great powers in the twenty-first century, focused on China, Russia, and the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Serhii Plokhy |Robert Person |Michael A. McFaul
Just weeks before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping proclaimed a “partnership without limits” between Russia and China. The autocrats reaffirmed the bond this year on the anniversary of the invasion. Now Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese nationals fighting for Russia and have intelligence indicating there are many more.
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2 weeks ago | 
hoover.org | Michael A. McFaul
MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests. Watch this video for an overview of MyHoover. Create Account
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2 weeks ago | 
michaelmcfaul.substack.com | Michael A. McFaul
Many American foreign-policy makers dream of being the next Henry Kissinger. Whether they admit it or not, they look to him as the model of shrewd calculation of national interests, geopolitical acumen, and devotion to diplomacy. He was a leader who struck grand bargains with global effects. And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972.
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2 weeks ago | 
hoover.org | Michael A. McFaul
MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests. Watch this video for an overview of MyHoover. Create Account
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2 weeks ago | 
michaelmcfaul.substack.com | Michael A. McFaul
I just mailed off the final chapter of my new book on competition between autocratic and democratic great powers in the twenty-first century, focused on China, Russia, and the United States. It draws on lessons from the cold war to argue that the world’s democratic camp, anchored by the United States, has not just more collective economic and military power than its autocratic camp, anchored by China and Russia, but better ideas about how to govern.
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2 weeks ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Michael A. McFaul |Evan Medeiros
Many American foreign policymakers dream of being the next Henry Kissinger. Whether they admit it or not, they look to him as the model of shrewd calculation of national interests, geopolitical acumen, and devotion to diplomacy. He was a leader who struck grand bargains with global effects. And no diplomatic maneuver is more quintessentially Kissinger than the U.S. opening to China in 1972.
