I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.