... international community?
Andrey Kortunov:
It would be wrong to argue that the end of the cold war did not generate any peace dividends. I am old enough to remember early 1990s... ... realities—the Paris Charter, the Conventional Forces in Europe Agreement (CFE), the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and so on. There was a surge of trade, investments, tourism and... ... that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international security and global governance.
In the West, they assumed that the future...
... develop into an open conflict in the foreseeable future because the price would be too high for both sides
Introduction
In 2014, Russia and the West entered into a serious conflict due to the Ukrainian crisis. At that time, it seemed that Moscow was doomed ... ... In a matter of months, their relations lost all remnants of partnership of the previous 20 years and entered a stage of a new Cold War. As distinct from the Soviet Union, Russia found itself in a much more vulnerable position. Its economic, military and ...
No short cut to a more constructive relationship exists
U.S.-Russian relations are not only in bad shape—very bad shape—but destructively and dangerously so. As each side sinks into deeper ... ... something larger is being missed. The ignored price they and the rest of the world will eventually pay for their escalating Cold War is immense. At the top of the list, unnoticed, a nuclear world is slowly slipping out of control. No longer two, but ...
It is time for us to quit constantly complaining about the treachery of the West, and stop dwelling on who cheated us and how in the 1990s
The new cold war between Russia and the West is characterized by the absence of a clear ideological confrontation. This constitutes its fundamental difference from the era of bipolarity, when the Soviet Union and the United States were irreconcilable ideological enemies. Both ...
Even after Trump was elected to the office of President, his continued positive statements about Russia has strengthened expectations that relations between the US and Russia would get better. However, expectations for the ... ... demonstrated until the 2000's.
The US, on the other hand, assumed that the void in the sphere of geopolitics that emerged after the Cold War could only be filled in by itself, with all political, economic, and military factors in its favour. This situation, ...
