Foreign Affairs - Quillette (Page 5)

Red Letter Day

How an unknown teacher from Leningrad took on Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev—and ultimately won.

Robin Ashenden

29 Sep 2022 · 12 min read

What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong About Ukraine

Vapid bromides about peace and negotiation are no substitute for policy and a frank acknowledgement of Russia’s responsibility for the conflict.

Matt Johnson

9 Sep 2022 · 10 min read

Idealist and Idiot

Gorbachev’s legacy is partly to blame for the tyranny into which Russia has since slumped.

John Lloyd

2 Sep 2022 · 9 min read

Lydia and the Vlads

An Estonian’s changing relationship with Russia.

Robin Ashenden

26 Aug 2022 · 12 min read

The Roads Not Taken

A new book by Orlando Figes explores the role of Russian history in the Ukranian war.

John Lloyd

12 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

False Accusations and Ideological Bias

Amnesty International, Ukraine, and the Illusion of NGO Fact-Finding Expertise.

Gerald M. Steinberg

11 Aug 2022 · 13 min read

Death From Above

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s reign of pious terror is now over.

Brian Stewart

4 Aug 2022 · 6 min read

Zelensky’s Terrible Dilemma—and Ours

Capitulation or Bloody Resistance?

John Lloyd

4 Jun 2022 · 8 min read

The Road to Genocide

The Uyghurs have the potential to threaten China's national unity, which is the real reason we are seeing the largest incarceration of an ethnic or religious minority since the Holocaust.

Aaron Sarin

31 May 2022 · 17 min read

Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now

Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.

Sol Stern

18 May 2022 · 14 min read

Casualties of War

I have been a Russophile for as long as I can remember. Or, to put it more exactly, since I was eight years old, when I attended a school play performance of Gogol’s The Government Inspector. I loved Gogol’s sense of humour, the long names with their patronymics—

Robert Ginzburg

16 Apr 2022 · 13 min read

Can the Revolution in German Foreign Policy Last?

During the fierce debate over the Iraq war, the German political scientist Karl Kaiser said, “Europeans have done something that no one has ever done before: create a zone of peace where war is ruled out, absolutely out.” And, he added, “Europeans are convinced that this model is valid for

Brian Stewart

11 Apr 2022 · 6 min read

Deterrence After Ukraine—A Critical Analysis

On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine with the explicit goal of eliminating its existence as an independent country. Why was Russian President Vladimir Putin not deterred by the risk of a response from the West/NATO? This question requires a review of the fundamentals of conventional deterrence, neglected by the

Shmuel Bar

24 Mar 2022 · 23 min read

A Failure of Deterrence

According to foreign policy “realists,” the tale we are being told about Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine is a fiction. Realists like to be known for their clear-eyed appreciation of the realities of global power, and in their telling, responsibility for the war does not lie chiefly with

Brian Stewart

17 Mar 2022 · 6 min read

Privilege-Checking in a World on Fire

Privilege is a sham mark of opprobrium—those who decry the privilege of others tend to want more of it for themselves. The dissemblance is all the more distasteful given that the detractors of privilege typically possess, comparatively speaking, an abundance of it. One need not be conversant in history

David A. Eisenberg

15 Mar 2022 · 5 min read