Andrew S. Weiss
Foreign Policy
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Past articles by Andrew:
How Putin Came to Fear ‘Color Revolutions’
A new graphic novel reexamines the Russian leader’s biography—with lessons for the present. → Read More
Trump’s Confused Russia Policy Is a Boon for Putin
In the current climate, the U.S.-Russian relationship is likely to stay stuck regardless of any grand gestures aimed at turning Putin into President Trump’s “new best friend.” → Read More
Are Mexico’s Elections Russia’s Next Target?
Unless countries like Mexico confront election-related vulnerabilities and the manipulation of voters through fake news and propaganda, the democratic process will be at risk. → Read More
Why the U.S. Is Naming Wealthy Russians With Ties to Putin
The Trump administration says it won’t impose any of the sanctions that Congress overwhelmingly voted to level at Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. Part of the measure directed the Treasury Department to compile a list of Russian figures in an effort to "name and shame" them. → Read More
What Was Trump’s Russia Plan?
In dealing with the Kremlin, across so many divergent interests, there are no easy fixes or grand bargains. → Read More
Russia’s Road to Revolution
In the centenary year of the October Revolution, Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has created a groundbreaking online tool for understanding Russia’s road to revolution → Read More
Putin’s Latest Anti-American Intervention: Venezuela
For all its bellicose talk and new sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s government, the Trump administration has been oddly silent about Russia’s role, perhaps preferring not to draw attention to the fact that Moscow is now the bankrupt nation’s lender of last resort. → Read More
Vladimir Putin’s Russia Goes Global
Russia’s renewed activism isn’t about dictating events in particular corners of the world. It is about exploiting opportunities to undermine and hollow out the U.S.-led international order, with its norms of economic openness, democratic accountability and the rule of law. → Read More
Are Russian Protests a Threat to Putin?
While disruptive, the recent political protests are unlikely to immediately destabilize the regime. → Read More
U.S. and Russia Relations Are Very Strained. Here’s What’s at Stake
The latest reports on repeated contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials have strained the potential for improved ties between Moscow and Washington. Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner reports, then Judy Woodruff gets views on what’s at stake from Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Paul Saunders of the Center for the National Interest. → Read More
Vladimir Putin’s Political Meddling Revives Old KGB Tactics
It has become accepted wisdom that Russia’s interference in the presidential campaign represents a fundamentally new sort of intrusion into a modern democracy’s inner workings. But the Kremlin’s efforts are a revival of Soviet covert behavior that dates back to the Cold War. → Read More
Trump and Russia: The Right Way to Manage Relations
The challenge facing the Trump administration is to skillfully manage, rather than permanently resolve, current tensions with Moscow. → Read More
Illusions vs Reality: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia
The U.S.-Russian relationship is broken, and it cannot be repaired quickly or easily. → Read More
Guiding Principles for a Sustainable U.S. Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia: Key Judgments From a Joint Task Force
The new U.S. administration should avoid fueling unrealistic expectations of a breakthrough and instead seek incremental progress on specific topics based on a set of guiding principles. → Read More
Trump Says United States Has No Place Criticizing Putin
The Trump administration desires a new modus vivendi with Moscow, but the real focus should be managing the relationship with Russia rather than promising a dramatic breakthrough. → Read More
Kremlin Vows To Retaliate For U.S.-Imposed Sanctions
Putin’s surprise decision not to expel U.S. diplomats from Russia in response to the recently imposed U.S. sanctions served multiple purposes. → Read More
A New Russian “Re-set?”
There is a lot that remains unknown about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. → Read More
Should We Fear Russia?
Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between Russia and the West. However, the Cold War analogy is misleading. Relations between the West and Russia are certainly bad and dangerous but they are bad and dangerous in new ways. → Read More
Clinton’s Campaign and the DCCC are Cyber Hacked—Was it the Russians?
U.S. intelligence has high confidence that the Russian government was behind cyber hacks on Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee—putting U.S.-Russian relations on edge. → Read More
The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
Charles Clover depicts the intellectual ferment that has brought provocative strands of Russian nationalism at the heart of the Kremlin’s policymaking apparatus under Vladimir Putin. → Read More