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Jan 2, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Stephen Sestanovich
U.S. Foreign Policy Europe Ukraine If, as he promises, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump can settle Russia’s war against Ukraine, he will surely boast that he accomplished something no one else has been able to do in over 100 years—end a major war on the European continent by negotiation. And he’ll be right—well, almost right.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Stephen Sestanovich
The Joe Biden administration and its partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—for both domestic and foreign policy reasons—are clearly determined to ensure that their July 9–11 summit in Washington is seen as a resounding success.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
pbs.org | Sue Terry |Stephen Sestanovich
This Expert Brief combines interviews with Sue Mi Terry, senior fellow for Korea studies, and Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Terry was a deputy national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council from 2009 to 2010. Sestanovich was the U.S. State Department’s ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union from 1997 to 2001.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Sue Terry |Stephen Sestanovich
Dagestan1 hour agoSeven Police Officers and a Priest Killed in a Coordinated Terrorist Attack in Russia's DagestanKyiv Post - Alisa Orlova • 1hArmed militants attacked Orthodox churches and synagogues in Derbent and Makhachkala on Sunday, causing multiple casualties.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Stephen Sestanovich
For months, no word was used more often to describe Russia’s war against Ukraine than “stalemate.” For generals and policymakers, military analysts and journalists, the term helped capture the difficulty each side faced in making major gains against the other. More From Our Experts The image of a deadlocked war shaped the policy debate as well. To advocates of a cease-fire, it bolstered the case for negotiation.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Stephen Sestanovich
Coverage of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent interview with pundit Tucker Carlson focused on how long and how long-winded it was. What was Putin trying to do here? No matter how tedious the interview seemed, Putin clearly had some real goals in mind, and it’s worth parsing them a little. I was struck by two contradictory objectives. The first was to get Western governments and publics thinking and talking about a negotiated settlement of the war in Ukraine.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Stephen Sestanovich
Coverage of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent interview with pundit Tucker Carlson focused on how long and how long-winded it was. What was Putin trying to do here? No matter how tedious the interview seemed, Putin clearly had some real goals in mind, and it’s worth parsing them a little. I was struck by two contradictory objectives. The first was to get Western governments and publics thinking and talking about a negotiated settlement of the war in Ukraine.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Omar G. Encarnación |Shannon K. O'Neil |Stephen Sestanovich
Nearly four months after voters cast their ballots, the Spanish general elections have produced a new government. Despite coming second in the vote tally, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party has secured his position as the head of the government after protracted negotiations to gain a majority of seats in Spain’s Congress of Deputies.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | A Anderson |Salam Fayyad |Shannon K. O'Neil |Stephen Sestanovich
Hamas’s attack on October 7 shocked the world and upended the status quo in the Middle East. Two months into Israel’s war against Hamas, much remains unclear. What is Israel’s endgame in the Gaza Strip? Who can govern Gaza when the fighting ends? How have Hamas’s attack and Israel’s response reshaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? How high are the risks of escalation and what will the conflict mean for the region?
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
cfr.org | Stephen Sestanovich
Brilliant, witty, and ambitious, Henry Kissinger made diplomacy the stuff of unrivaled celebrity. He thrived on attention, and would have been thrilled by the flood of coverage that marked his death last week. Whether the obituaries and commentaries put his record in a positive or negative light, almost all of them treated Kissinger as the master of events. More From Our Experts This may be how he wanted to be remembered, but it’s not what really happened.
