... on new rules of the game in bilateral relations. The negative dynamics in relations between Moscow and Washington are becoming a serious problem not only for the two countries in question, but also for the entire international system.
Is a New “Reset” Possible?
Working from Otto von Bismarck’s famous quote that “politics is the art of the possible” (“die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen”), let us try and determine what is possible and what is impossible ...
... understand what they have achieved and missed out on, to inspect their progress and review errors.
Valery Garbuzov, deputy director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the RAS
, shares his view of the situation.
Does Barack Obama’s refusal to meet Vladimir Putin imply that this is the end of the “reset”?
There were difficulties in Russia-U.S. relations since long before the Edward Snowden incident. The armed conflict between Georgia and Russia, missile defense, Syria, strategic arms control, Iran, human rights in Russia, the Magnitsky Act ...
One year after the utter failure of the U.S.-Russia “Reset,” the relationship between the two countries is gradually nearing its nadir. Beginning with Secretary of State Hillary ... ... McFaul’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, the climate in U.S.-Russia relations started to deteriorate leading to USAID’s closure, open confrontation on the Syrian issue, and exchange of the punitive “Magnitsky” and “Yakovlev” ...
... parity/stability, stringent actual (if not legal) limits on BMD capabilities and putting aside all other nuclear and conventional weapons and programs.
Washington claims that its superior BMD program and long range conventional weapons (in particular, thousands of sea-launched cruise missiles and PGS projects) are assigned missions against rogue states and terrorists. But Russia perceives them as undercutting strategic stability and Russia’s security. In Moscow any START follow-on is linked to resolving ...
... to draw its energy from more numerous and various sources. In the international arena, there are few overlapping or coinciding priorities in the two countries’ agendas, whereas the logic pointing to the competitive positioning of Russia and the USA seems stronger than any signs of an emerging joint strategy and tactics.
It is not surprising therefore that in Russia the very notion of the ‘reset’ – whatever the motives, substance and concrete results of this undertaking have been – is basically considered a thing of the past. And the United States is not expected to engage in a ‘reset’ as it did four years ...
... publisher of The National Interest and executive director of the Center for the National Interest, Washington, D.C. The interview was conducted Wednesday morning, January 23, 2013.
Paul Saunders:
Thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. The "reset" in the U.S.-Russia relationship was one of the first foreign policy initiatives during President Obama’s first term. We heard recently that senior State Department officials have said that the word "reset" should be retired ...
MOSCOW. Jan 21 (Interfax) - Former Russian foreign minister and former secretary of the Russian Security Council and Russian International Affairs Council President Igor Ivanov said that the "reset" in Russian-American relations has exhausted itself and the two countries should move further.
"Getting back to 'reset,' I think it has fulfilled its mission and exhausted itself," Ivanov said in an interview with Interfax in connection ...
MOSCOW. Jan 21 (Interfax) - Former Russian foreign minister and former secretary of the Russian Security Council and Russian International Affairs Council President Igor Ivanov said that the "reset" in Russian-American relations has exhausted itself and the two countries should move further.
"Getting back to 'reset,' I think it has fulfilled its mission and exhausted itself," Ivanov said in an interview with Interfax in connection ...
... more focused” when it comes to wielding America’s international influence inevitably meet with disagreement and accusations of weakness.
At the start of Barack Obama’s second term,
U.S.-Russian relation
s are hard to fathom.
Russia is ... ... Russia and America have no agendas to match the tasks of today and of tomorrow. Washington is hoping, in essence, for “Reset 2” — a continuation of the dialogue on subjects that achieved relative success in 2009-2010. In addition, it ...
... Russian and foreign analysts. That is why RIAC could not miss an opportunity to interview Prof.
Robert Donaldson
of the University of Tulsa, a renowned expert in Russia and US external affairs. Prof. Donaldson was kind enough to speak about the "reset", issues of mutual distrust, US foreign policy shifts and the latest trends in the Asia Pacific.
According to a recent opinion poll, 43% of respondents agreed with the statement that, as the United States plays a major role in international ...