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By Daniel W. Drezner Daniel W. Drezner Bio Follow Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything. March 15 The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts is off to Moscow yet again this week as part of the Fletcher School’s Russia and Eurasia program. Even though winter is ending, I suspect it will not feel like spring in Moscow, either meteorologically or politically.
Of course, Russia gets plenty of play, much of which was excerpted in the Atlantic recently. In an interview with the Atlantic’s James Fallows, Burns’s observations about China and Russia sound spot on to me. As he notes, “The Chinese are less focused on undermining that order than on adapting it to fit a change in power realities.” On the other hand, “Putin’s view is much more that of the disrupter, in a sense akin to Trump’s.
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