How Russia Decides to Go Nuclear
Deciphering the Way Moscow Handles Its Ultimate Weapon
CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon and Foreign Affairs Associate Editor Joshua Yaffa preview major world events in the week ahead.
In this week's podcast: the world reacts to U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address; countries release emissions targets for the year 2020; Munich hosts a key international security conference; and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko faces the opposition leader Vicktor Yanukovych in a presidential run off election.
Deciphering the Way Moscow Handles Its Ultimate Weapon
The Pliant Majority Sustaining Putin’s Rule
How Months of Protest Forged an Even More Intransigent Regime
Why the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Might Boil Over Again