Topic
Vladimir Putin
Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, from his rise to power to today’s war in Ukraine, and including his crackdown on Russian civil society, his position within the Kremlin, and evolving relations between Russia, China, and the West.
- Putin Will Turn a Cease-Fire Into a Weapon
Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte - How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention
Alexander Gabuev - Worse Than an Axis
Thomas Wright - The Only Way to Save Europe
Maurizio Molinari - Turkey’s Quiet Realignment
Gonul Tol - The Inertia of Russia’s War
Seva Gunitsky and Jeremy Morris - This Is Not the World Russia Wants
Hanna Notte - How China and Russia Can Exploit the Iran War
Jon B. Alterman and Ali Vaez - Kim’s Dangerous Liaisons
Oriana Skylar Mastro - Why Russia Is Watching Iran Burn
Alexander Gabuev, Nicole Grajewski, and Sergey Vakulenko - Ukraine Is Losing the War
Michael C. Desch - The Price of Peace in Ukraine
Peter Slezkine and Joshua Shifrinson - The Limits of Russian Power
Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte - Fortress Ukraine
Eric Ciaramella and Sophia Besch - How to Win the Shadow War With Russia
Samuel Greene and Christopher Walker - Why Putin Still Prefers War
Andrei Kolesnikov - Russia’s Descent Into Tyranny
Nina Khrushcheva - The Weakness of the Strongmen
Stephen Kotkin - America’s Magical Thinking About Ukraine
Sergey Radchenko - Moscow’s Offshore Menace
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - Ukraine’s Hardest Winter
Jack Watling - Putins All the Way Down
Joshua Yaffa - The Cracks in Russia’s War Economy
Alexandra Prokopenko - Europe’s Delayed Reckoning With Russia
Veronica Anghel and Sergey Radchenko - The Wrong Way to Do Diplomacy With Russia
Celeste A. Wallander - Russia’s New Fear Factor
Andrei Kolesnikov - Putin’s Play for Time
Alexander Gabuev - Putin’s New Cyber Empire
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - Ukraine Will Not Be a Pawn
Dmytro Kuleba - Russia’s Imperial Black Sea Strategy
Daniel S. Hamilton and Angela Stent - The Pernicious Spectacle of Trump’s Russia-Ukraine Diplomacy
Michael Kimmage - The First Step in Negotiations With Russia
Tanya Lokshina - Best Of: What Drives Putin and Xi
Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell - The Real Meaning of Putin’s Middle East Failure
Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani - Russia Is Losing Its Near Abroad
Jeffrey Mankoff - The Limits of Putin’s Balancing Act
Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman - How Russia Could Exploit a Vacuum in Europe
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, and Kate Johnston - Europe’s Two-Front War
Gideon Rose and Erik Jones - Why Putin Still Fights
Lawrence D. Freedman - The Delusions of Peacemaking in Ukraine
Dmytro Kuleba - Putin’s New Hermit Kingdom
Andrei Yakovlev, Vladimir Dubrovskiy, and Yuri Danilov - Why Peace Talks Fail in Ukraine
Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko - We Are Still Fighting World War II
Antony Beevor - Who Will Defend Europe? An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
Andrew Moravcsik - Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Maria Lipman - Goodbye to Russia: A Personal Reckoning From the Ruins of War
Maria Lipman - The Russia That Putin Made
Alexander Gabuev - Arms Control Is Not Dead Yet
Rose Gottemoeller - Why They Fight
M. E. Sarotte - China and Russia Will Not Be Split
Michael McFaul and Evan S. Medeiros - The Perils of “Russia First”
Alexander Vindman - Putin’s Theories of Victory
Alexander Gabuev, Alexandra Prokopenko, and Tatiana Stanovaya - Arsonist, Killer, Saboteur, Spy
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - What Does Trump See in Putin?
Fiona Hill - Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last?
G. John Ikenberry and Harold James - A Plan for Peace Through Strength in Ukraine
Stephen Hadley, Daniel Fried, and Franklin D. Kramer - Ukraine Without America
Andriy Zagorodnyuk - Where Does Ukraine Go From Here?
Nataliya Gumenyuk - Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia
Maria Lipman - The World Trump Wants
Michael Kimmage - Putin’s Ukraine
Nataliya Gumenyuk - Russia’s Costly Conquest in Ukraine
Andrew Kosenko and Peter Liberman - The Price of Trump’s Power Politics
Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay - The Cold War Putin Wants
Andrei Kolesnikov - Putin Is Not Yet Desperate
Alexandra Prokopenko - How Will the World Navigate Trump’s Return?
Malcolm Turnbull and Bilahari Kausikan - How the World Sees Trump
- Stress Test
Margaret MacMillan - Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
Barry Eichengreen - America Needs a Maximum Pressure Strategy in Ukraine
Alina Polyakova - Putin Chose Ukraine Over Syria
Alexander Baunov - A Pathway to Peace in Ukraine
Samuel Charap - American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age
Antony J. Blinken - Putin’s Point of No Return
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman - The Price of Russian Victory
Elaine McCusker - The Russian Economy Remains Putin’s Greatest Weakness
Theodore Bunzel and Elina Ribakova - Can Trump Split China and Russia?
Alexander Gabuev - Total War Is Back—and America Must Adapt
Mara Karlin - A Last Chance to Prevent Nuclear Anarchy
Lewis A. Dunn - Ukraine’s Trump Tightrope
Nataliya Gumenyuk - The Price of Principle Is Dwarfed by the Cost of Capitulation in Ukraine
Lloyd J. Austin III - What Trump and the American Right See in Foreign Autocrats
Beverly Gage - Russia Is Playing a Long Game in Moldova
William H. Hill - Putin’s Children
Andrei Kolesnikov - Putin’s Hidden Vulnerability
Peter Pomerantsev - The Middle East, China, and the Case Against American Isolationism
Condoleezza Rice - The Battle for the BRICS
Alexander Gabuev and Oliver Stuenkel - The Crumbling Nuclear Order
Doreen Horschig and Heather Williams - Putin Will Never Give Up in Ukraine
Peter Schroeder - The False Promise of Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Into Russia
Stephen Biddle - Ukraine on the Offensive
Nataliya Gumenyuk - Putin the Resilient
Julian G. Waller - China Is in Denial About the War in Ukraine
Jude Blanchette - Putin’s New Agents of Chaos
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - Can Ukraine Get Back on the Offensive?
Mick Ryan - Putin’s New War Economy
Andrei Kolesnikov - The Right Way for America to Counter Russia in Africa
Frederic Wehrey and Andrew S. Weiss - Will the NATO Alliance Survive a Second Term of Donald Trump?
- How Russian Elites Made Peace With the War
Mikhail Zygar - Should Ukraine Keep Attacking Russian Oil Refineries?
Sergey Vakulenko, Michael Liebreich, Lauri Myllyvirta, and Sam Winter-Levy