--- title: George Beebe | TIME description: George Beebe is director of the Grand Strategy program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is a former director of Russia analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency and author of The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe. canonical: https://time.com/author/george-beebe/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/george-beebe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # George Beebe ## George Beebe _George Beebe is director of the Grand Strategy program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is a former director of Russia analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency and author of_ [The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russia-Trap-Shadow-Nuclear-Catastrophe/dp/1250316626). ## George Beebe *  Jul 1, 2024 ### [The Coming Russian Escalation With the West](https://time.com/6994227/russia-us-ukraine-crisis/) Vladimir Putin has proved quite reluctant to strike directly at the West over its support of Ukraine... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 27, 2023 ### [Ukraine's Counteroffensive Needs a Plan B](https://time.com/6298695/ukraine-counteroffensive-plan-b-column/) Ukraine's counteroffensive problems can't be fixed with more arms and training alone, write George B... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/george-beebe/","name":"George Beebe"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/george-beebe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/george-beebe/"},"name":"George Beebe","jobTitle":null,"description":"George Beebe is director of the Grand Strategy program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is a former director of Russia analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency and author of The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe.","url":"https://time.com/author/george-beebe/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```