The Republican Challenge to Obama's Russia Policy

摘要

In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, relations between the United States and Russia have oscillated between optimism and mutual suspicion. The second administration of George W. Bush (2005-09) is widely acknowledged as the lowest point in post-Cold War bilateral relations, with conflict over a range of prominent and sensitive issues such as missile defence, NATO enlargement, the practice and promotion of democracy, and the August 2008 Russia-Georgia War. In the last years of this period, the question of whether this represented the start of a 'new Cold War' was widely discussed.