Diffusion

China in Focus host Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Matthew Goodman of the Center for International and Strategic Studies about China’s $9 billion “One Belt, One Road” initiative, a project some refer to as the new “silk road.”

Have China's security capabilities and changes in American foreign policy given Beijing a more influential role on the world stage?

As North Korea continues to provoke the U.S. and East Asia with missile tests and nuclear proliferation, Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council, discusses the current state of security in the region and North Korea’s new nuclear device.

Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran hosts this final episode of our series, Diffusion: Russia in Focus. Over the course of this series, we’ve explored the historical context of the relationship, its development since the end of the Cold War, and the economic, military and political rivalry between the two. We’ve examined Russia’s domestic politics, global energy politics, the crisis sparked by its invasion of Ukraine, it’s fraught ties with NATO and intervention in Syria. Now it’s time to sum up what we’ve learned in conversations with two dozen of the world’s preeminent experts on Russian affairs, many of them Carnegie grantees, and how their insights might guide US policy in the Trump era.

Host Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, and Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center and Research Professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, as President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare to meet at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Schell and Shirk are co-chairs of the Asia Society report "U.S. Policy Toward China: Recommendations for a New Administration."

Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Janne Nolan, chair of the Nuclear Security Working Group at George Washington University, and David Holloway, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stanford University, about Russia’s nuclear capabilities and the state of treaties aimed at maintaining global nuclear security.

Michael Moran, Visiting Media Fellow for Peace and Security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, speaks with Brian Taylor, professor of political science at the Maxwell school at Syracuse University, and Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, about life inside Russia today.

Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Timothy Colton, Professor of Government and Russian Studies at Harvard University, and Samuel Charap, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The two are coauthors of "Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia."

As Donald Trump prepares for the Oval Office, foreign policy analysts have struggled to understand how his administration's policy towards Russia will take shape. Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Olga Oliker, a senior adviser and director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and Paul J. Saunders is Executive Director of the Center for the National Interest and a former Deputy Secretary of State for Global Affairs during the George W. Bush administration, in this episode of Diffusion.

Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Andrew Kuchins of Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Kimberly Marten of Columbia University about how the end of the Cold War has led to current tensions around Syria, NATO and nuclear reduction.

Is a cyber ceasefire between the U.S. and Russia possible, or will recent events and allegations of cyber hacking lead to greater conflict? Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Austin Long, associate professor and technology expert at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Amy Zegart, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with Sergey Aleksashenko, Former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia and former chairman of Merrill Lynch Russia and Clifford Gaddy, Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and author, “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” about Russia's economic challenges and its dependence on oil.

What does the future of U.S.-Russia relations hold in 2017? Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with two geopolitical analysts who have analyst and forecast on this critical question often in recent years, Michael Mandelbaum, Director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Mathew Burrows, Director of the Strategic Foresight Initiative at the Atlantic Council.

How will the buildup of NATO forces, and closer military cooperation among NATO allies in the Baltics, impact Russian behaviors and U.S.-Russia relations? Mike Moran speaks with Michael Kofman of The Woodrow Wilson Center. #Russia #Putin #ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #Crimea #Syria #Obama #Peace #Security

Visiting Media Fellow Michael Moran speaks with the Wilson Center's Matthew Rojansky and Georgetown University's Angela Stent about Russia's foreign policy and the world order. #Russia #Putin #ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #Crimea #Syria #Obama #Peace #Security