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On the podcast: A journalist reconstructs the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Military cooperation with Middle East allies can work—if Washington rethinks its premises.

The Kremlin is going after Russian rappers, but the government can't control a culture it doesn't understand.

Forget the Middle East—it’s time to prepare for attacks from the former Soviet Union.

The late 41st U.S. president’s prudence was once derided as the wimp factor, but it has aged well.

The Caucasus is a complex ethnic and religious patchwork, and only a shared identity can help Georgians push back against Putin.

If Washington wants to pressure Tehran, the White House should stop alienating allies, empowering hard-liners, and harming regular Iranians.

The Conservative Party's negotiating strategy is premised on telling the EU one thing and British voters another. Doublespeak won't deliver a deal; it will lead to economic and political disaster.

Restoring the reputation of America’s most underrated foreign-policy president.

On our podcast: As Trump sits down with Putin, we look back at a summit in Reykjavik that helped end the Cold War.

Russia could have done something to prevent sexual exploitation of foreign women during the World Cup. It chose not to.

Trump’s summit with Putin risks tarnishing a legacy of Republican moral leadership.

Nixon and Reagan managed to negotiate with Mao and Gorbachev because they had personal chemistry, common goals, and control of their domestic politics.

Not every post-Soviet revolution is about the geopolitics of Russia.

Why Russia’s strongman economy can’t reform.

The Marshall Plan recognized the limits of U.S. power in Europe. To be successful, so must diplomacy with Moscow today.

As its rivals invest in new military hardware, Washington is stuck refurbishing obsolete equipment.

After eight years at Foreign Policy, here are the ten most popular Best Defense posts.

The recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on nuclear weapons introduced some unsettling possibilities.

The Russian president cloaks himself in nationalism, but that’s not where his heart is.