At the tactical level, the Putin-Bush alliance against terrorism is secure, but this alliance is based on two wasting assets: Bush’s presidency and a shared understanding of what constitutes the terrorist threat. Long-term alliance between Russia and Europe appears inevitable, if not immediately so. Based on the workings of the global balance of power, economic relations, and compatible identities, a Russian-European alliance can be deferred at best, absent a revolutionary change in U.S. foreign policy toward the world more generally. […]
Memo #:
300
Series:
1
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pm_0300.pdf
