US-EU-Russia: New Strategic Dynamics after Bush

Submitter: Matthew Rosenstein

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Title

US-EU-Russia: New Strategic Dynamics after Bush

Contributor(s)

• Kanet, Roger E.
• Rosenstein, Matthew A.
• Leff, Carol S.
• Brannon, Robert B.

Issue Date

2009

Keyword(s)

• United States -- Foreign relations -- European Union
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia
• European Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
• European Union -- Foreign relations -- Russia
• Russia -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Russia -- Foreign relations -- European Union
• Conflict -- Russia and Georgia
• Kosovo -- Independence
• Missile defense -- United States

Abstract

"This issue of Swords and Ploughshares derives its content from a symposium held on the University of Illinois campus in October 2008, entitled ""US-EU-Russia: New Strategic Dynamics after Bush."" This project sought to examine the complex relations among the United States, European Union, and Russia at a juncture when circumstances suggested such analysis was particularly warranted—with the conclusion of George W. Bush’s eight years as US president, following the ascension to the Russian presidency by Dmitry Medvedev after Vladimir Putin’s eight years in that office (albeit with Putin’s transition to prime minister portending a less seismic shift in Russian policy direction than the US case signals). These changes have implications for the immediate form and tone of US-EU-Russia relations. In addition to offering a retrospective analysis of the post-cold war period and especially the past decade, this collection of articles seeks to understand and contextualize a series of recent developments that have brought the uneasy triangle of relations between the US, EU, and Russia into stark relief. Those developments include Kosovo’s declaration of independence in February 2008; the August 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict; US proposals to place missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland; and ongoing disputes over natural gas that have disrupted flows from Russian energy suppliers to Ukraine and other countries of Europe."

Publisher

Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Swords and Ploughshares, winter 2008-9

ISSN

1046-7734

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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