Robert Legvold

Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Political Science at Columbia University

Robert specializes in the international relations of the post-Soviet states. He was director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia (1986–1992), taught political science at Tufts, and served as senior fellow and director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations. His most recent book is “Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century and the Shadow of the Past” (2007).

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Russia is Becoming Our Enemy Again

With Nina Khrushcheva, Robert Legvold, Mark Medish, Claudia Rosett, Bret Stephens, J. Michael Waller
October 30, 2007

Upon meeting Vladimir Putin in 2001, President George W. Bush announced that he had looked the Russian leader in the eye and found him to be “straightforward and trustworthy.” Since then, we have witnessed the rise of an authoritarian state, bolstered military capabilities, and growing antagonism toward the West. Could this be the start of a new Cold War, or do strategic differences mean a cold peace, and nothing more?

Russia is Becoming Our Enemy Again

With Nina Khrushcheva, Robert Legvold, Mark Medish, Claudia Rosett, Bret Stephens, J. Michael Waller
October 30, 2007

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