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Ambassador Michael Carpenter was nominated by President Biden to serve as the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 3, 2021, by unanimous consent.
Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Carpenter was the Managing Director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2015-17, Dr. Carpenter served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, and Conventional Arms Control. Previously, he worked in the White House as a foreign policy advisor to then-Vice President Biden and as Director for Russia at the National Security Council. Prior to his White House jobs, Carpenter was a career Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, where his roles included Deputy Director of the Office of Russian Affairs, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Political-Military Officer, and Advisor on Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts. He served overseas in the U.S. Embassies in Poland, Slovenia, and Barbados.
https://www.powervertical.org/2020/12/11/uncharted-waters/
We probably won’t be seeing any reset buttons anytime soon.
It’s also highly doubtful that the new American president will be looking into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and getting a sense of his soul.
He certainly won’t have a backslapping friendship with Putin like the one Bill Clinton enjoyed with Boris Yeltsin. Nor will there be anything like the businesslike partnership George H.W. Bush enjoyed with Mikhail Gorbachev.
No, as far as the post-Cold War world goes, we’re pretty much entering uncharted territory.
In fact, not since Ronald Reagan took the oath of office in January 1981 has a U.S. president entered the White House with a more adversarial relationship with Moscow than the one president-elect Joseph R. Biden will inherit next month.
But unlike Reagan, who came to office with the entire U.S. national security infrastructure and the transatlantic alliance calibrated to containing the Soviet Union, Biden will need to reconstruct that architecture almost from scratch.
So what can we expect?
Michael Carpenter, managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration, joins us this week to discuss the future of U.S.-Russia relations.
The Power Vertical Podcast is produced by the University of Texas at Arlington’s Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.
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