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Matthew Crosston

Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Security and Intelligence Studies program at Bellevue University

Vladimir Putin and the West: To Dance or Not to Dance

These are the days of our discontent. At least, this is likely the lament privately voiced by many in the corridors of American and European power. Obama’s recent trip to Europe to shore up greater resolve and commitment for strengthening sanctions and isolating (or is it shaming?) Russia after the Crimea annexation (or is it secession?) was fairly uneventful. The fact...

Matthew Crosston

Beware the Sheep with Fangs

Starting to heat up the Internet (well, at least in Russia and Eastern Ukraine, while likely not even to be acknowledged in Western Europe) is a hacked telephone call last week between the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Nestor Shufrich and the former Prime Minister, recently-freed-from-prison, media darling Yulia Tymoshenko. The recording, which lasts just over two minutes...

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Crimea: What Comes Next?

These are the days of our Spring discontent. It is ironic to consider that as events continue to unfold in Crimea the path that might hold the most hope for future peace and stability is the one that guarantees all sides being at least somewhat disappointed. Allow me to elaborate. Why Ukraine should be disappointed: Crimea is done. As the famous Southern saying in America goes, ‘closing the barn door after the horses have left doesn’t do much good.’ Authorities in Kiev are understandably displeased...

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Reuters on Crimea: The Triumph of Hypocrisy

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US and Russia: Bringing a Knife to a Foreign Policy Gunfight

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The Dilemma of Duplicity: The Three Maestros of the Crimea

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US and the Problem of Being a Geopolitical Prom Queen

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