Articles by Walter Laqueur

In the second of two articles on Russia’s Muslim strategy, Walter Laqueur observes that hostility to the United States and its allies inclines Russia’s elites towards an anti-Western alliance. This blinds them to threats close to home. These are, above all, demographic: while Russia’s population shrinks, its Muslim enclaves keep growing

The Kremlin holds that Muslim countries are Russia’s natural allies against the West. Yet this policy is riven with contradictions, reflects the distinguished commentator Walter Laqueur in this two-part review. In the first article he examines Russia’s foreign policy since the fall of communism. It has achieved little beyond preventing Muslim countries from openly supporting their co-religionists within Russia, he concludes