Moscow may temporarily profit from the West’s focus on the Middle East, but navigating its ties in the region will be tricky.
Notte: It’s a big stretch to say Russia would endorse Hamas’s bloody assault and risk outright disruption in relations with Israel and with the Gulf states.
PODCAST: Assessing the significance of Russia’s increasingly close relationships with Pyongyang and Tehran for U.S. national security.
The report contains a comprehensive account of the ACRS Working Group meetings during the 1990s.
CNS experts conduct oral history interviews with participants in the ACRS multilateral meetings in the early 1990s, following the Madrid Conference of 1991.
The CNS International Advisory Council held its annual meeting in Washington, DC on October 24, 2022.
This study outlines an inventory of measures the U.S. government can take, comprising strategic and operational recommendations.
Russian equivocation, U.S. distraction, and Gulf Arab states’ reliance on deterrence and defense will likely undermine prospects for addressing regional missile proliferation through diplomacy.
From Saddam’s Iraq to Putin’s Russia, habits of opacity make it hard to definitively assign responsibility for atrocities.
Russia’s ability to project power into the region remains limited today, and the status quo seems tolerable. But there are risks to U.S. interests in the future.
