There may be no reset in U.S.-Russian relations under the Biden administration, but what can be done to defuse tensions and avoid worst-case scenarios?

This is not a call for a reset or a new partnership, but rather for a responsible, less hostile relationship between rivals bitterly divided by visions of world order, geopolitical interests, and values.

Vladimir Putin has made progress in restoring Moscow’s status as a great power. The United States may no longer be the indispensable nation, as that idea was understood in the 1990s.

Sending weapons to Ukraine could prolong the country’s agony and distract it from the vital task of reconstruction.

In August 2008, Russia and Georgia went to war and the United States became involved in its gravest confrontation with Moscow since the end of the Cold War. “War,” the third part of the BBC Two series Putin, Russia, and the West, covered the outbreak of the conflict through interviews with key players in the drama.

On October 21, 2004, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a launch of a new book Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.. Rose Gottemoeller, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment, moderated the session.