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Shared Interests, Competing Values, and U.S.-Russian Relations: Q&A Video
The roundtable assessed the direction of policy under the new administration in the week ahead of President Obama’s visit to Moscow, and explored the challenges and opportunities the two countries face on issues of mutual and global concern.
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When times are good, the United Nations provides a global stage to showcase cooperative efforts between Moscow and Washington to advance common interests. When times are bad, difficult bilateral relations take on an even more malignant cast as they are projected on the UN’s global screen and as each side seeks to caricature the other and to curry favor from the 190 other member states. Today, as Moscow and Washington struggle to adjust to changing times and to transitions in global geopolitics not of their making and not necessarily in the narrow interests of either capital, it is the complexity of their relationship that stands out. After years of frustrated relations, 2009 emerged as one of change, as the United States and the Russian Federation, each with new leadership and each in its own way, have sought to push the “restart button” on their bilateral relationship. As in earlier years of promise, the realization of change will no doubt come more gradually and grudgingly than the encouraging rhetoric. And as before, some of the more interesting developments will be played out at the United Nations and in other multilateral fora. These days, for two unavoidable and related reasons, the multilateral agenda has to be seen as unusually compelling, even to those cynics (or “realists”) in both capitals who have long regarded international law and institutions as little more than distractions from the core bilateral relationship. Download the PDF here.
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The roundtable assessed the direction of policy under the new administration in the week ahead of President Obama’s visit to Moscow, and explored the challenges and opportunities the two countries face on issues of mutual and global concern.
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The roundtable assessed the direction of policy under the new administration in the week ahead of President Obama’s visit to Moscow, and explored the challenges and opportunities the two countries face on issues of mutual and global concern.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, every U.S. administration has considered Russia's political trajectory a national security concern. While the Obama administration plans to cooperate with Moscow on a number of issues, it will find that Russia's current deficit in the areas of democracy and the rule of law complicate the relationship and may, in some cases, undermine attempts at engagement. Results from nearly a dozen large, random sample surveys in Russia since 2001 that examine the views and experiences of literally thousands of Russians, combined with other research and newspaper reporting, all suggest the current democracy and rule of law deficit is rather stark. In this report, Sarah Mendelson assesses the political dynamics that have shaped Russia's authoritarian drift, addresses a few of the ways in which they matter for U.S. policy, and suggests several organizing principles to help the Obama administration manage this critical relationship. Download the PDF here.
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Since the Communist takeover of China in 1949, relations between Moscow and Beijing have alternated between a close partnership against a hostile or threatening United States and bitter estrangement that could allow Washington to play one against the other. Russia and China in recent years have drawn back together against perceived American overreaching, yet the rapidly rising economic strength and political influence of China also occasions disquiet in Russia. Its vast resource-rich but population-scarce territory of Siberia shares a long and still disputed border with an overpopulated China, providing an undercurrent of instability to the relationship between these giant neighbors. What are the strategic challenges that Russians see in China's breakneck rise, and what do they see as their opportunities? What shared interests do Moscow and Beijing see in Central Asia, in China’s western “autonomous” regions, and in offshore East Asia, and what opportunities and challenges do regional groupings like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization present to them—and to Washington? What are the two countries’ convergent (and at times divergent) concerns on vexing international issues in which the United States is engaged, both in the United Nations Security Council and outside? How can U.S. policymakers most successfully address the complex web of Russian interests vis-à-vis China to achieve greatest success on their own concerns, and how can progress on these issues strengthen U.S.-Russian cooperative relations in other areas? Download the PDF here.
