Shifrinson in the Washington Examiner on Impeachment and Russia
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke to the Washington Examiner on U.S. foreign relations, NATO expansion, and Russia after the Cold War.
A February 6, 2020, OpEd in the Washington Examiner entitled, “With impeachment over, time for new course with Russia” by Bonnie Kristian, quotes Shifrinson’s research, saying:
Framing Russia as the U.S.’s enemy, rather than a rival or competitor, is a difficult habit to break, but we cannot have a prudent foreign policy until it is broken. Russia is not the Soviet Union. It is far weaker, and its foreign policy aims are much more focused on dominance in its part of the world than the global ideological influence project of the Soviet era.
Analysts including Joshua Shifrinson have dubbed this a broken promise, and it isn’t difficult to see why. This repeated expansion resulted in aggression from Moscow, eager to prove it would not be cowed by NATO’s growth, while undermining the security of the U.S.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy, and author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018).