Articles by Walter Russell

Walter Russell Mead: The US and EU shake up global trade

Walter Russell Mead: In Europe, confusion reigns about the US

Walter Russell Mead: ‘Master of the Game’ review

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Walter Russell Mead: American global leadership is in retreat

Walter Russell Mead: Biden’s Afghan best-case scenario

Walter Russell Mead: The deeper crisis behind the Afghan rout

Walter Russell Mead: Biden’s Chamberlain moment in Afghanistan

Walter Russell Mead: Capitalist solution to a globalist pandemic

Walter Russell Mead: Why Putin still covets Ukraine

Walter Russell Mead: While democracies lecture, their adversaries run free

Walter Russell Mead: This isn’t your grandfather’s Turkey

Walter Russell Mead: A liberalish new world order

Walter Russell Mead: Can Biden’s resolve weather Putin and Xi?

Walter Russell Mead: America’s back – against a wall

Walter Russell Mead: Biden’s rough start with the world

Walter Russell Mead: Can Biden find clarity on China and Russia?

Walter Russell Mead: Germany won’t take Portugal’s EU split

Walter Russell Mead: Biden’s foreign-policy team takes shape

Walter Russell Mead: The world still watches America

Walter Russell Mead: What in the world if Trump wins?

Walter Russell Mead: A world of geopolitical opportunity

Walter Russell Mead: Can anyone stop the Caucasus clash?

Walter Russell Mead: Russia and China wield dull wedges

Walter Russell Mead: The pandemic is a dress rehearsal

Walter Russell Mead: The Mideast pudding loses its theme

Walter Russell Mead: Biden’s foreign-policy blast from the past

Walter Russell Mead: Libya’s foul foretaste of the post-American world

Walter Russell Mead: The global political pandemic

Walter Russell Mead: The imperial presidency will outlast Trump

Walter Russell Mead: The thinking behind Trump’s troop cut in Germany

Walter Russell Mead: Enemies see a weak and divided US

Walter Russell Mead: The world waits out Trump

Walter Russell Mead: A disruptive president in a storm of crisis

Walter Russell Mead: Germany needs to become a great power again

Walter Russell Mead: Biden wouldn’t be a second Obama

Walter Russell Mead: What Trump has in common with Napoleon

Walter Russell Mead: Boris and Bibi ride coronavirus pandemic popularity

Walter Russell Mead: Democrats should support America’s oil industry

Walter Russell Mead: The century of bioweapons

Walter Russell Mead: Amid the pandemic, anti-Semitism flares up

Walter Russell Mead: China still misleads the world on the coronavirus

Walter Russell Mead: Coronavirus reopens Europe’s old division

Walter Russell Mead: The Trump-Russia showdown over oil

Walter Russell Mead: The coronavirus may make Trump stronger

Walter Russell Mead: Will coronavirus kill populism?

Walter Russell Mead: Trump and the pandemic

Walter Russell Mead: Does the arc of history bend toward Idlib?

Walter Russell Mead: Europeans try to have it both ways

Walter Russell Mead: The Cold War over Venezuela

Walter Russell Mead: A stronger Germany could save Europe

Walter Russell Mead: All aboard the crazy train

Walter Russell Mead: Freedom stages a comeback

Walter Russell Mead: ‘Ukrainegate’ – treason or common sense?

Walter Russell Mead: Why Russia and China are joining forces

Walter Russell Mead: 2018’s biggest loser was liberal international order

Walter Russell Mead: Trump brings foreign policy back to Earth

Walter Russell Mead: Donald Trump’s high-wire foreign policy

Walter Russell Mead: Saakashvili washes hands of Odesa

Walter Russell Mead: What Erdogan’s pivot to Putin means

Walter Russell Mead and Damir Marusic: Ukraine’s grim slide

Walter Russell Mead: Ruble crisis puts Putin’s back against the wall

Walter Russell Mead: US gas cutting into Gazprom’s bottom line

Walter Russell Mead: Ukraine’s economy is in meltdown