Author : Anatol Lieven
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Book Synopsis US-Russian Relations and the Rise of China by : Anatol Lieven
Download or read book US-Russian Relations and the Rise of China written by Anatol Lieven and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. policies towards Russia have been characterized by a level of hostility which is not justified by Russian threats to U.S. interests. These U.S. attitudes towards Russia have both encouraged and been encouraged by a strategy of the expansion of U.S. influence and U.S.-led alliance systems at Russia's expense. This has led the U.S. into strategic commitments in regions which past generations of U.S. policymakers would have regarded as almost surreally distant from real U.S. concerns. Not surprisingly, this U.S. strategy has converted what in the early 1990s was an almost exaggerated level of respect for the U.S. among educated Russians into feelings of distrust and hostility which extend from the security elites into much of the population. Geopolitically, in the future, the vital interest of the U.S. will be the same as the vital interest of Russia for the past twenty years: to see a multipolar world with those poles friendly to the U.S. as powerful as possible. Even without U.S.-participation, an EU-Russia bloc of the later 21st century would be a vastly more powerful and resilient entity than either of them on their own and would therefore be in the interests of the United States. U.S. leaders should craft their relations with Russia with this in mind.