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COMMENTARY / World

Feb 21, 2017

Mutual deterrence still matters

Today, as during the Cold War, mutual deterrence can save the world.

Japan Times

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 22, 2015

Can a 'Greater Eurasia' help Europe resolve its crises?

Unless something is done, the current stalemate between Russia and the West will lead to a much deeper crisis.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 13, 2013

Obama's doomed relationship 'reset' with Russia

The failure of the U.S.-Russia relationship 'reset' should come as no surprise, owing to its deeply flawed foundations.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 27, 2011

Moscow must also look to the east

Over the past 18 months, Russia's relations with Asia have begun to improve. Both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have repeatedly pointed to the need for an economic turn to Asia. Dozens of protocols and agreements on new projects have been signed with China. Some are already up and running.

COMMENTARY / World

Apr 30, 2011

The end of mutually assured destruction?

Two years ago in Prague, U.S. President Barack Obama put forward his visionary idea of a world free of nuclear weapons. A year ago, a new strategic arms treaty between Russia and the United States was signed in the same city. Now the wave of support for a full ban on nuclear weapons is being transformed into a debate about nuclear deterrence. Indeed, the four American strategists who first called for "nuclear zero" — Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry, and Sam Nunn — have partly backtracked, and are now calling for an end to the doctrine of "mutual assured destruction."

COMMENTARY / World

May 5, 2010

Nuclear disarmament goal a harmful myth

MOSCOW — Russia and the United States have signed a new strategic nuclear-arms reduction treaty (START). Officially, the treaty cuts their weapons by one-third; in fact, each party will decommission only several dozen.

COMMENTARY / World

Dec 26, 2009

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 relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole. Of course, Russia partly belongs to this region. Yet it cannot and does not want to join the West wholeheartedly — at least not yet. Meanwhile, this choice looks very different now compared to just a few years ago.

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 9, 2009

20th-century legacy of confrontation lives on

MOSCOW — This November will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the end of confrontation in Europe may be proving only temporary. One year after last summer's war in Georgia, old divisions seem to be re-emerging in a different form. Although the Cold War in Europe was declared over, the truth is, it never really finished.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 5, 2006

Western geopolitics suffering from an infantile disorder

PRAGUE -- Recent statements from some American leaders and North Atlantic Treaty Organization representatives give the impression that not only Islamic and other radicals, but also quite civilized figures, are losing their grasp of reality and have begun acting irrationally. The world is becoming an increasingly difficult place to predict and manage, especially for those who are accustomed to being in charge.

Two people try to take a selfie under the illuminated cherry blossoms in Kyoto’s Gion district last year.

Sakura stories revisited: Getting in the mood for hanami

Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.

For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on

By Lance Henderstein

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