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Eugene Rumer
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In The Media
U.S.-Russia Relations and the Trump Administration
The United States should strike a “middle path” in its policy toward Russia: standing up for core U.S. principles and values but also cooperating with Russia where necessary.
By Eugene Rumer
Published on Feb 24, 2017
Source: C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
The Trump administration faces both challenges and opportunities in its relations with Russia. In a recent joint task force report, Eugene Rumer, Andrew S. Weiss, and Richard Sokolsky argued that the United States must “skillfully manage, rather than permanently resolve, tension with Moscow,” striking a middle path in its policy toward Russia.
Eugene Rumer, director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, expanded on the concept of a middle path in an interview with Steve Scully on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal:
“The middle path is the path of standing up for our core principles and core values that have been guiding our foreign policy for a long time, but also cooperating with Russia where necessary and working to diffuse the situation in a number of very tense global hot spots; one of course being in Syria... and the other in Europe, where we see a military confrontation standoff between Russia and NATO in a way we haven’t seen since the end of the Cold War.”
This interview was originally broadcast on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.
About the Author
Eugene Rumer
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program
Rumer, a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council, is a senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program.
- Russia Will Be More Dangerous After the War with Ukraine
- Belligerent and Beleaguered: Russia After the War with UkrainePaper
Eugene Rumer
Recent Work
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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