Chris Miller

Chris Miller is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He received his PhD in history from Yale University in 2015. He recently completed a book manuscript on the collapse of the Soviet economy.

The challenges and contradictions of a new foreign policy for Turkey

Chris Miller Jul 26, 2016

“More friends, fewer enemies,” is the foreign policy slogan that Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced after taking office in May. As foreign policy mantras go, it sounds more like bland diplomat-speak rather than a serious…

Russia’s energy leverage on Europe: declining but still troubling

Chris Miller Mar 22, 2016

Russia is an energy superpower, President Vladimir Putin is fond of declaring. For years, Europeans have focused on the threat of Russia’s “energy weapon” - the prospect that the Kremlin might cut off gas supplies, forcing them to toe the…