... structured around these actors, and in terms of the country’s security strategy. Like bin Laden after the September 11 attacks, Snowden is contributing to the reshaping of the US security mechanisms, which redeployed to concentrate on electronic surveillance ... ... resources directly serves the interests of the White House. This has created a comprehensive and unrivaled powerhouse, allowing the USA to orchestrate “interpenetration imperialism” reinforced by questionable rhetoric about “Internet freedom”,...
... 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 and the adoption of Russian children by U.S. couples – these are the issues that provoked ...
... Trenin
Interview
Russia-U.S. relations are in decline but no one intends to bring them to a complete halt.
Dmitry Trenin
, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), shared his views on the Snowden case, U.S. President Barak Obama’s refusal to meet with President Vladimir Putin, and of the outcomes of the 2+2 meeting that brought together Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and US Minister of Defense Chuck ...
... import in the media or Brazil’s raucous Congress asked for details of these institutional security arrangements. They are too busy energizing their political base pointing the finger at Uncle Sam. What is different about the revelations of Edward Snowden, the WikiLeaks-guided former contract employee of Booz-Allen, is that Brazil, while having a close strategic relationship with the United States, is also put in a the complicated position of being a party to both sides. While maintaining a strategic ...
... Russians, other than common criminals, to their authoritarian government.
The Snowden case has also exposed interesting features and fissures within the non-Western world. Beijing benefited most from the incident because it conveniently blunted Obama's accusations of Chinese hacking at precisely the time of the meeting between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping last month. By welcoming Snowden to Hong Kong, the special status of which does not interfere with the Chinese Public Security Ministry's freedom to operate, Beijing was probably able to look into the laptops Snowden was carrying. Finally, China was able to wash its hands of ...
The Snowden affair is fresh evidence of how much the world has changed in a historically short period of time. In the not too distant past, spies were the main target in the never-ending war between intelligence agencies. Zero sum games and intrigue were ...
