McFaul's World
Michael McFaul, Christopher Peleo-Lazar, Jennifer MonaghanExplaining international politics, and especially the fight between autocrats and democrats in the world today.
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May 2026 Newsletter: China, Russia, America and the New Global Disorder
Credit: Kremlin.ru
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Thirteen years ago, on May 9, 2013, I was seated on Red Square alongside dozens of other diplomats at a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945...
Beijing Trip Report
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Last week, I was in Beijing. My primary reason for traveling to China was to speak at a conference hos...
My Conversations with Stephen Colbert
It was the honor of a lifetime to appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Following his sign-off last night, I thought I’d revisit those appearances— the first in July 2018, shortly after the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, and again...
Happy Talk in Beijing, but Few Gains for America (Yet)
Last week, President Donald Trump concluded the biggest foreign-policy summit of his second term when meeting Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping in Beijing. The meeting was long on pageantry and short on substance. Sometimes, in di...
Détente 2.0: Hoping for a Boring Summit in Beijing
Since the first Obama administration, American presidents from both parties have identified the rise of China as a paramount national security challenge. In 2011, the Obama administration called for a pivot to Asia to counteract Beijing’s g...
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
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