Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C. (non-resident); columnist for Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ); author of Der Wille zur Weltmacht. Droemer 2025
Russia would be an economic giant and a global political power today—if it had opened up to the West and invested in its people, instead of pursuing a vanity project of national grandeur through military means. Yet that would have meant much less power & money for the oligarchs.