Ready to fight back? Sign up for Take Action Now and get three actions in your inbox every week. You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Sign up for Take Action Now and get three actions in your inbox every week.

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue

Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month!

Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter.

Fight Back! Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions you can take each week. You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions you can take each week.

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue

Travel With The Nation Be the first to hear about Nation Travels destinations, and explore the world with kindred spirits. Be the first to hear about Nation Travels destinations, and explore the world with kindred spirits.

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine?

Ad Policy

How did the United States get into another standoff with Russia—and where do we go from here? The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen Cohen offered historical context on this question in a discussion with John Mearsheimer and moderated by Gilbert Doctorow in Brussels earlier this month.

At the March 2 discussion, “Defining a New Security Architecture for Europe That Brings Russia in From the Cold,” hosted by the American Committee for East-West Accord, Cohen explained that since the end of the Soviet regime, the United States has maintained an attitude of “winner-take-all,” refusing to negotiate with Russia and pursuing its interests at all costs.

“I would argue that since the Clinton-Bush era, triumphalism and the push for the spread of global liberalism supplanted the national interest as the true test of American foreign policy,” vanden Heuvel said. The Nation, she added, will provide a forum for the creation of a new foreign policy strategy based in progressive principles.