Nicolai Petro: Russian-American Relations
The Russian-American relationship since the collapse of the USSR is a litany of lost opportunities and lack of vision. The latter is rooted in an ostensible "values gap" that has effectively cast relations with post-communist Russia into another a long succession of "strategies of containment," to use historian John Lewis Gaddis' classic phrase.
Change will not come until we stop thinking of Russia as the USSR, and treat Russian democracy with the respect it deserves, so that it can finally resume its rightful role as an integral part of the West. Sadly, it appears that the task of finally bringing Russia back into Europe will be left to future generations, less burdened by the memory of the Cold War.
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| # | Type | Date | Content |
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| 1 | Article | 06/15/2007 | Putin's Proposal: A Deal Too Good to Pass Up (View How Many People Read This) 1  |
| 2 | Article | 03/20/2008 | Should Moscow Root for Obama? (View How Many People Read This) 2 |
| 3 | Article | 08/21/2008 | "Prisoners of the Caucasus unite" (View How Many People Read This) 3 |
| 4 | Article | 07/14/2009 | Mired in a Yawning Divide (View How Many People Read This) |
| 5 | Article | 07/27/2011 | Russia Can't Be Manipulated Through External Pressure (View How Many People Read This) 1 |
| 6 | Article | 03/14/2012 | America: Play Nice with Russia! (View How Many People Read This) 4 |
| 7 | Article | 04/07/2012 | Romney's Shot Across the "Reset":' (View How Many People Read This) |
| 8 | Article | 01/17/2014 | Mutual Suspicion Prevents Effective Security Cooperation with Russia (View How Many People Read This) 1 |
| 9 | Article | 01/17/2014 | Escaping the Values Trap (View How Many People Read This) 1 |
| 10 | Article | 01/18/2014 | The Sum of All Our Fears (View How Many People Read This) 4 |
