Stephen F. Cohen
Contributing Editor
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September 21, 2016
Who Is Making American Foreign Policy—the President or the War Party?
The US military attack on the Syrian army gravely endangers Obama’s proposed détente with Putin in Syria and elsewhere.
Stephen F. Cohen
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September 14, 2016
Will US Hawks Again Thwart Yet Another Chance to Diminish the New Cold War in Syria and Ukraine?
Pro-détente diplomacy is being fiercely opposed by detractors from Washington to Kiev.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Foreign Policy September 7, 2016
More Lost Opportunities to Diminish the New Cold War
Obama rejects a partnership with Russia against ISIS in Syria and reneges on his own proposals to reduce nuclear dangers while Ukraine’s President Poroshenko reneges on an agreement to end the Ukrainian civil war.
Stephen F. Cohen
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August 24, 2016
More Alarming News From the Fronts of the New Cold War
Finland may become yet another front, the war party may have defeated Obama on Syria policy, and dangerous desperation in Kiev.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Election 2016 August 17, 2016
Cold-War Casualties From Ukraine and Syria to the New York Times’s ‘Standards’
Factional politics may have killed Obama’s proposed détente with Russia and the Minsk peace process in Ukraine, while the Times publishes another gutter article—this one about Paul Manafort.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Election 2016 August 10, 2016
Neo-McCarthyite Kremlin-Baiting of Trump Continues to Prevent Urgent Policy Debates
While pro-Clinton “liberals” and others escalate their slurring of Trump as Putin’s “agent” and “puppet,” international developments vital to US interests are being ignored in this presidential election year.
Stephen F. Cohen
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August 3, 2016
Cold War, Détente, Neo-McCarthyism, and Donald Trump
The missing pro-détente argument may now be provoked by Donald Trump but is being suppressed by McCarthy-like attacks on the improbable messenger.
Stephen F. Cohen
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August 2, 2016
Trump Wants to Stop the New Cold War, but Most of the American Media Just Doesn’t Understand
We should listen to what Trump says about Russia policy instead of Putin-baiting him.
Stephen F. Cohen
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July 27, 2016
Neo-McCarthyism and Olympic Politics as More Evidence of a New Cold War
McCarthyism was a characteristic feature of the preceding Cold War, but now it is coming from liberals, even from the Clinton campaign.
Stephen F. Cohen
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Election 2016 July 20, 2016
The Friends and Foes of Détente With Russia
Events from Turkey, Washington, Moscow, and Syria to Cleveland affect the Obama-Putin attempted rapprochement.
Stephen F. Cohen