Cold War stereotypes prevent the building of a new system of international links
On August 9, Russian foreign and defense ministers met their U.S. counterparts in Washington the day after President Obama had cancelled his September visit to Russia. American hawks were triumphant, as were Moscow’s hawks and some like-minded figures in Europe – all rubbing their hands over yet another slip up in the Russia-U.S. relationship. Cold War stereotypes are proving really hard to kill - poisoning...
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As regards the U.S., let me repeat that the threat comes not only or largely from rivals. The challenge for the U.S. is to adapt itself to the new realities and get on top of the new trends.
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President Barack Obama and the new
geopolitical reality
Some experts and historians thought that new economic blocs would emerge - one thinks of Harvard historian Niall Ferguson who advocated the idea of G2, an economic bloc of China and the U.S. What, in your ...
.... It should also be borne in mind that according to SIPRI Russia and the U.S. account for 16.2 thousand out of total 17.3 thousand nuclear warheads existing in the world
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. It means that the share of France (300 nuclear warheads), UK (225), China ... ... the Russia-US relations has been set but has not started to be implemented yet. Therefore, the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama this September will play a key role. If the two presidents agree to begin negotiations on economic and strategic ...
... policy is worthy of particular attention, since the U.S. president is in a position to do much more in this arena, with his executive powers, without having to seek support from a Congress that seems less and less capable.
For obvious reasons, although Barack Obama’s first term in office was conditioned by the need to address the more pressing problems on the “home front” (such as the financial system crisis, recession, and unemployment), international crises interfered with the U....
Leaving Plus Staying
President Obama's policy in Afghanistan seems consistent, but it is far from straightforward. The U.S. administration faces a conundrum: it is time to complete the Afghan antiterrorist operation, but peace is not within sight. But the president still has his second term to wind up the mission with minimum losses for the Democratic Party.
Strategies and Plans Before Troops Withdrawal
Obama’s Afghan policy has not really changed much since his first presidential campaign...
Interview
Obama has a pretty good understanding of the modern world. He sees the changes, and knows the world much better than his colleagues and opponents. But he is uncertain of how best to manage things. Therefore, his foreign policy is likely to be reactive and shaped by the endless upcoming issues, such as potentially volatile changes outside the United States.
Fyodor Lukyanov
, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Politics magazine and member of RIAC
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How do you assess the U.S. election campaign...
... economic recovery, with Obama becoming the first president to be reelected despite an extremely high unemployment rate.
Looking back, how would you assess Obama's first term, his key achievements and failures? Has he really fulfilled his 2008 promises?
Barack Obama has taken the appropriate steps to lead the economy out of recession. And he has also tried to deal with a major social problem, the lack of any health insurance for a huge part of the U.S. population. However, Medicare reform, the landmark ...
... expresses its deep satisfaction with the outcome of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama, held on June 18 in Los Cabos (Mexico).
The joint statement issued following the meeting indicates that the course ... ... regime. If someone believes that there will be an opportunity to play on the contradictions in the approaches of Russia and the USA to non-proliferation, this will not happen.
The coincidence of Russian and U.S. positions on sensitive issues such as combating ...