Relations Between Russia & the U.S.

RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES: CURRENT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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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