Obama's Latest Foreign Slip
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
So much for resetting relations with Russia. The president's decision to send Georgian troops to Afghanistan will infuriate Moscow-and reveals his lack of appreciation for exactly what it takes to accomplish big priorities.
Russia's Ticking Time Bomb
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President Obama's trip may have looked like a success, but Russia expert Stephen Cohen tells The Daily Beast that the situation is just as dangerous as ever.
Obama's Russia Problem
As Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow for a nuclear arms deal, he faces the challenge of winning over an unimpressed Russian public.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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