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Senator Hagel and Nuclear Weapons

January 30, 2013, Steven Pifer

Nuclear Arms Control: Another New START

January 17, 2013, Steven Pifer

Ukraine is Bluffing over Russia’s Offer

January 14, 2013, Steven Pifer

Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama’s Second Term

January 17, 2013

U.S.-Russia Relations in Obama's Second Term

January 9, 2013, Steven Pifer

NATO-Russia Missile Defense: Compromise is Possible

December 2012, Steven Pifer

Ukraine: Digging in Deeper on Tymoshenko

December 20, 2012, Steven Pifer

Nuclear Arms Control Opportunities: An Agenda for Obama’s Second Term

December 2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

The [Russia-led] Customs Union will kill EU free trade: Do you want a Customs Union with a $2 trillion a year economy or do you want to go to the largest economy in the world, [representing] some $15 trillion to $16 trillion a year?

December 11, 2012, Steven Pifer, The Kyiv Post

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: Looking Back and Lessons for the Future

December 7, 2012

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The Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces: History and Lessons Learned

December 2012, Steven Pifer, Avis T. Bohlen, William F. Burns and John Woodworth

I assume the president [Obama] has a more ambitious arms control agenda for his second term.…If he wants another treaty as part of his legacy, it has to be done in time for a ratification debate in 2015, not in the 2016 election year.

December 3, 2012, Steven Pifer, Los Angeles Times

Obama, Putin, Arms Control and U.S.-Russia Relations (Новый этап в отношениях Вашингтона и Москвы)

December 3, 2012, Steven Pifer

The West Now Views Ukraine as a Country that has Gone Off the Democratic Track

November 24, 2012, Steven Pifer

Part of [Ukrainian President] Yanukovych’s obstinacy may result from an inflated sense of Ukraine’s geopolitical weight.

November 22, 2012, Steven Pifer, The Kyiv Post

Are The Russians Ready To Reengage?

November 19, 2012, Steven Pifer

The Foreign Policy Debate: Key Issues and Omissions

October 23, 2012, Justin Vaïsse, Feng Wang, Steven Pifer, Tanvi Madan and Diana Villiers Negroponte

In the next several years the U.S. has to make some very expensive decisions about how to modernize the legs of the U.S. strategic triad [bombers, submarine and land-based missiles]. For example, replacing the Trident submarine will cost, according to the Navy, $6 to $7 billion a piece.

October 22, 2012, Steven Pifer, NBC News

What the Candidates Should be Asked on Foreign Policy

October 19, 2012, Steven Pifer, Daniel L. Byman, Michael E. O'Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Richard C. Bush III and Jonathan D. Pollack

Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

October 19, 2012

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Arms Control Should be High on President's Agenda

October 19, 2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Command and Control over Nuclear Arms

October 19, 2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Disarming the World

October 18, 2012, Steven Pifer

Arms Control and the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election

October 15, 2012, Steven Pifer

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The U.S. Should Make Annual Declarations to Russia of Its Missile Defense Plans

October 2012, Steven Pifer