Anastasia Edel,
a writer and social historian.An illustration depicts Vladimir Putin holding up a hand of playing cardsFederico Yankelevich illustration for Foreign Policy
After centuries of trying to catch up with the West, Russia is now using its influence to reshape the politics of Western countries and erode their foundational commitment to the democratic order.
Nowhere is this more visible than the United States. For nearly 80 years—through the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the fragile new order that followed—the United States viewed Russia as a rival to be contained, not courted. But in the first few months of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, Washington has turned its back on its historic democratic allies and pivoted toward Moscow.
Anastasia Edel is a Russian-born American writer and social historian. She is the author of Russia: Putin’s Playground, a concise guide to Russian history, politics, and culture. Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books,
the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Project Syndicate, Quartz, and World Literature Today. She teaches history at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of California, Berkeley.
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