Samuel Charap

Jan 13, 2025 | ft.com | Samuel Charap

The writer is distinguished chair in Russia and Eurasia policy and a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation Despite all the...

Jan 13, 2025 | rand.org | Samuel Charap

Despite all the differences between president-elect Donald Trump's team and key European governments, both sides seem to agree on the merits of at least one policy: deploying a European force to Ukraine after the fighting there ends. In a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France's Emmanuel Macron last month, Trump reportedly said that European troops should be present in Ukraine to monitor any ceasefire.

Jan 10, 2025 | rand.org | Samuel Charap

Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 1 Document Number: EP-70785 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.

Dec 31, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Michelle Gavin |Alice C. Hill |Alina Polyakova |Samuel Charap

In June 2024, Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz that proposed halting the delivery of U.S. weapons to Ukraine if Kyiv didn’t enter into peace talks with Moscow—but also warning Moscow that if it refused to negotiate with Kyiv, Washington would increase its support for Ukraine.

Dec 24, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Samuel Charap

For those seeking to end Russia’s devastating war in Ukraine, the election of Donald Trump presents a crucial opportunity. In direct contrast to U.S. President Joe Biden, whose administration has held to a policy of unwavering support for Ukraine without pushing for a defined endgame to the war, Trump has focused almost exclusively on that endgame. He has long made clear his intention to bring the two sides to the negotiating table soon after he takes office and maybe even before that.