Stephen F. Cohen

Contributing Editor

Stephen F. Cohen, professor of Russian studies at New York University, is the author (with Katrina vanden Heuvel) of Voices of Glasnost: Conversations With Gorbachev's Reformers and, most recently, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia (both Norton).

Currently

  • Stalin's Victims Return

    August 27, 2008

    The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.

  • McCain, Obama and Russia

    June 30, 2008

    Overshadowed by the US disaster in Iraq, Moscow's impact on our foreign policy will continue long after that war ends. Why aren't Obama and McCain addressing that?

  • The Missing Debate

    May 1, 2008

    Why aren't the presidential candidates talking about Moscow's impact on our national security?

2007

  • Conscience and the War

    March 8, 2007

    After four years of war, complete withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to redeem our nation for the death and destruction it has imposed.

2006

  • The Soviet Union, R.I.P.?

    December 13, 2006

    The collapse of the Soviet Union was far from inevitable: A historic opportunity to democratize and marketize Russia by more gradual means was lost--and the people paid the price.

  • The New American Cold War

    July 10, 2006

    The cold war never really ended: Russia's continuing instability and weapons of mass destruction, combined with Washington's triumphalist foreign policies and US/NATO military buildup, are creating an even more dangerous situation.

  • The New American Cold War

    June 21, 2006

    The unfolding conflict over US plans to build missile defense components near post-Soviet Russia, in Poland and the Czech Republic, is the latest proof of the way US-Russian relations are deteriorating into a new cold war.

2005

2003

  • The Struggle for Russia

    November 6, 2003

    The ongoing human tragedy is what is missing from the US media story, the plight of most Russians is hardly ever mentioned.

  • Are We Safer?

    May 19, 2003

    Has the Iraq war increased America's national security?

  • Are We Safer?

    April 17, 2003

    Has the Iraq war increased America's national security?

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

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