Security with or against Russia?
Introduction As far as integrating Russia in a cooperative pan-European security system and developing a strategic partnership are concerned, the first 10 years of the new millennium amounted to a lost decade of estrangement, fraught with crises and conflicts: one need mention here only NATO enlargement, arms control crises, and the energy question. Eight years of American unilateralism under George W. Bush also contributed to Moscow's, from time to time, rather brash new self-assurance, which now and again got rather ahead of itself. This self-assurance was primarily the result of the unprecedented economic growth based on skyrocketing oil prices. The global financial and economic crisis and the attendant fall in commodity prices have not only ended the boom of recent years, but also revealed the structural weaknesses of the Russian economy. (...)
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Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, 2-2010, Page 65-78, 20.04.2010