Washington-Moscow negotiations that started yesterday in Saudi Arabia are odd, to say the least. These offline discussions in Riyadh are high-level – foreign ministers and presidential advisers of US ...

[Nota bene: Responses by Samuel J. Umland, and a reply by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. appear in SFS 68 (March 1996); with additional responses and replies in SFS 69 (July 1996) by R.D. Mullen, Gregg ...