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Russia and the U.S. Election: Assessing Moscow’s Actions and America’s Responses

On January 27, the Center for the National Interest hosted a discussion covered by C-SPAN titled “Russia and the U.S. Election: Assessing Moscow’s Actions and America’s Responses” with Center Executive Director Paul Saunders and George Beebe, a former chief of Russia analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency and President of BehaviorMatrix LLC, a text analytics

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"Putin's definition of risk-taking has evolved in the direction of greater boldness and less attention to how it will affect the U.S."

-Dimitri K. Simes

“While many experts and scholars can readily recite a laundry list of reasons for growing tensions in the U.S.-Sino relationship, there is only one that counts: Beijing has determined that it no longer needs to bide its time or hide its capabilities, evidenced by China’s opposition to a U.S. led international system in the Asia-Pacific."

-Harry Kazianis

"For now the GOP is Trump's party. But if Trump really wants to show that he's mastered the art of the deal, he will have to deal artfully with both his friends and foes."

-Jacob Heilbrunn

“Defining U.S. policy toward Russia with only limited consideration of fundamental U.S. foreign-policy objectives—a common tendency in the past—has contributed to today’s dangerous U.S.-Russia confrontation while failing to address some of America’s highest priorities.”

-Paul Saunders

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U.S.-Russia Relations in a Trump Administration

On January 10, the Center for the National Interest hosted an event focusing on the future of U.S.-Russia relations under the Trump administration. Center Executive Director Paul Saunders moderated a discussion with Andranik Migranyan, a chief policy expert at Moscow State University’s Center for Public and Political Programs, a professor at the Moscow Institute of

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