American political scientist at Stanford and Hoover Institution — former US Ambassador to Russia (2012–2014) — author of From Cold War to Hot Peace — the leading American analyst of Putin's Russia from a democratic-promotion perspective.
Creates the democracy promotion framework for Russia policy analysis — McFaul's argument (that the West's failure to support Russian democratic development in the 1990s enabled Putin's rise) is the primary counterargument to realist critiques of NATO expansion.
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