‘Dialogue Works’ edition of 23 January: Russia & Iran Brace as Trump Reshapes U.S. Policy

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In this wide-ranging discussion of developments in international politics over the past week, we devoted particular attention to Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Vladimir Putin to sit down for peace talks with Ukraine OR ELSE expect sanctions and more sanctions.  We also talked about the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Agreement signed between Iran and Russia: specifically what was so peculiar about the document and how it must be viewed as a preparation for the talks over normalization of relations that surely will come soon between Washington and Teheran.

I do my best to demonstrate how all commentators, myself included, are at their wits end to make sense out of the contradictory signals coming out of Trump and his nominees for the power positions in his administration with respect to foreign policy.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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