Relations Between Russia & the U.S.

This research examines current international relations between the Republic of Russia and the United States. The Republic of Russia is, in effect, the successor state to the former Soviet Union. Although any of the 15 autonomous republics of the former Soviet Union could claim such a designation, the Russian Republic is the only one of those 15 states that retains any semblance of the international stature of the former Soviet Union.

The emergence of the Russian Republic as an international player in its own right has occurred over the past two and one- half years. Thus, while the relationship between the Republic of Russia and the United States is relatively new in one sense, that relationship is, in part, a continuation of the relationship that existed between the former Soviet Union and the United States. That former relationship exerts a major influence on the current relationship. In some instances, the character of the former relationship causes the United States and Russia to seek new ways of dealing with one another. Economic interaction is an example. In other instances, however, the character of the former relationship shapes the current relationship. The recent discovery of a Russian (and former Soviet) mole at the highest levels of the CIA is an example. Thus, this examination of the current relationship between the Republic of Russia and the United Stat

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o the Former Soviet Union, a country that could ill afford economically the arms race in which it was engaged. The United States, however, had two powerful incentives to pursue arms control and disarmament through the application of a strategy that tended to assure that neither of these goals would be attained. The first incentives was that the arms race was far more detrimental to the economic health of the Former Soviet Union than it was to that of the United States. By keeping the arms race alive, thus, the United States could assure that the Former Soviet Union would never become an economic threat to the United States, and that in turn the inability of the Former Soviet Union to provide adequate consumer economic benefits for the country's population would cause that nation's leaders to look inward more than outward, thus, reducing the Soviet military threat to the United States. Social unrest from Soviet consumers could also be projected. The second incentive was that the capitalist economy of the United States had failed in the 1930s and had never recovered. On its face, this statement may seem unjustifiable. The contention can, however, be defended. In mid-1924, and economic expansion began in t
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Approximate Word count = 2641
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)

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