George Beebe is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest. He is the author of the book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Catastrophe, to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2019. He spent more than two decades in government service as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of CIA’s Russia analysis and as Special Advisor to Vice President Cheney for Russia and Eurasia.