Michael McFaul is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He served five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia at the National Security Council (2009-2012) and then as the US Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). This essay is adapted from testimony at the US House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing: “U.S. Policy Towards Putin’s Russia.” You can follow him on Twitter: @McFaul
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Source: Harvard International Review