New Paradigm of US Foreign Policy and Relations with Russia

... American foreign policy is more complex and multidimensional than the rhetoric about a new global confrontation between democracies and autocracies. First, the world does not fit into the Procrustean bed of a new ideological confrontation. As in the previous Cold War, in the fight against global adversaries, the United States needs to partner with a number of non-democratic countries (for example, Vietnam). Many of the official US allies are authoritarian (including most allies in the Middle East, including ...