Sergei Karaganov, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, is Dean of the School of World Economics and International Affairs at Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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Sergei Karaganov
Commentaries by Sergei Karaganov
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Xi in Russia
MOSCOW – The atmospherics surrounding Xi Jinping’s coming trip to Russia – his first visit to a foreign country as China’s new president – r…
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Fatal Thaws
MOSCOW – During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external limits on the activities of states a…
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The Age of Authoritarian Democracy
MOSCOW – The world is currently being shaken by tectonic changes almost too numerous to count: the ongoing economic crisis is accelerating t…
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Look East, Russia
MOSCOW – Over the past 18 months, Russia’s relations with Asia have begun to improve. Both President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vlad…
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MAD No More?
MOSCOW – Two years ago this month in Prague, US President Barack Obama put forward his visionary idea of the world free of nuclear weapons. …
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The Dangers of Nuclear Disarmament
MOSCOW – Russia and the United States have signed a new strategic nuclear-arms reduction treaty (START). Officially, the treaty cuts their w…
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Will Russia Save the West?
MOSCOW – Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country’s r…
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The Unfinished Cold War
MOSCOW – This November will mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the end of confrontation in Europe may be pro…
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Western Geopolitics: An Infantile Disorder
Recent statements from some American leaders and NATO representatives give the impression that not only Islamic and other radicals, but also…
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Russia’s Road to Isolation
Next week, Presidents Putin and Bush will meet in Slovakia. Mounting authoritarianism in Russia and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution seem to have…
The Age of Authoritarian Democracy
Alex D.: I like the analysis of our current western situation: "First, social inequality has grown unabated in the West over the last quarter-century, owing in part to the disappearance of the Soviet Union a…
Xi in Russia
Alexander Afonkin: Thousands of Central Asian slaves with low wages, no social security and bad living conditions which will lower average wages in region… Of course it will make Trans-Baikal region more attractive to o…