Steven Pifer

Stewart Patrick

Huang Ping

Vladimir Popov

Irina Prokofyeva

Aditya Pareek

Natalia Piskunova

Yauheni Preiherman

Alexei Pushkov

Daniil Parenkov

Steven Pifer

USA

Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer

Previous position: Director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative and a senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution.

Materials

Opinions

Nuclear Arms Control in the 2020s

The agenda for nuclear arms control and related issues in the 2020s is a broad one. As the United States, Russia and others figure out how to maintain and enhance strategic stability in a multi-player, multi-domain world, Washington and Moscow will continue to have a central role, writes Steven Pifer, a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and a retired US Foreign Service officer.

06.04.2021

Opinions

How Will the World Without the INF Treaty Look? Not Very Pretty

Hopefully, before too long Moscow and Washington will come to remember the logic of arms control, the logic that has driven them in the past to regard arms control as a tool that could enhance each country’s security. Unfortunately, it is not clear how quickly that will happen.

04.02.2019

Opinions

U.S.- Russia Relations and a Second Trump-Putin Summit

Just days after what was widely regarded in the United States as an abysmal performance by President Trump in Helsinki, the White House disclosed an invitation for President Putin to visit Washington. That has led to numerous negative reactions, from Democrats and Republicans alike, for whom a second summit seems likely to be a setback for U.S. interests.