How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia. Others argue that such a policy is a dead end. Putin’s Russia has legitimate grievances against Western and NATO powers meddling in its sphere of influence. Instead of further antagonizing Putin and risking a dangerous escalation of the current conflict, the U.S. and Europe should seek common cause with Russia to address shared threats, from the Middle East to Asia to combatting terrorism. In the fifteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, acclaimed academic Stephen F. Cohen and veteran journalist and bestselling author Vladimir Pozner square off against internationally renowned expert on Russian history Anne Applebaum and Russian-born political dissident Garry Kasparov to debate the future of the West’s relationship with Russia

An Alternative Narrative of Donald Trump’s US and Putin’s Russia, from America’s Most Prominent Russian Scholar Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate’s unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American “disinformation,” not only Russian, is a growing peril. In War With Russia?, Stephen F. Cohen—the widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia—gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump’s election and today’s unprecedented Russiagate allegations. Cohen’s views have made him, it is said, “America’s most controversial Russia expert.” Some say this to denounce him, others to laud him as a bold, highly informed critic of US policies and the dangers they have helped to create. War With Russia? gives readers a chance to decide for themselves who is right: are we living, as Cohen argues, in a time of unprecedented perils at home and abroad?

Бухарин. Политическая биография (англ. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography) — однотомная биография Николая Бухарина, опубликованная профессором Нью-Йоркского университета Стивеном Коэнем в 1980 году. В 1979 году, на международной выставке-ярмарке в Москве, работа была конфискована, но затем была переведена на русский язык и вышла в СССР в 1988 году тиражом в 150 000 экземпляров. В этой книге, являющейся исследованием взаимосвязи политической программы Бухарина и исхода внутрипартийной борьбы 1928–1929 годов, автор заочно полемизирует с Исааком Дойчером и Эдуардом Карром, рассматривающими позицию Льва Троцкого в качестве единственной альтернативы сталинизму в СССР. Коэн выдвигает концепцию «бухаринской альтернативы» (состоявшей в расширении внутрипартийной демократии вплоть до политического плюрализма, продолжении новой экономической политики и добровольной коллективизации) сталинскому «великому перелому»

В центре внимания нового (или, как выясняется, не очень нового) исследования видного американского историка Стивена Коэна — нелёгкий процесс возвращения и реабилитации жертв сталинского террора. Среди вопросов, волнующих автора: перипетии этого процесса при Хрущёве и после него, роль бывших репрессированных в политике оттепели, а также неоднозначное отношение к ГУЛАГу и гулаговцам со стороны власти и общества в СССР и постсоветской России