Center for Security Studies

Moscow Seeks to Renegotiate Relations with the West

Moscow Seeks to Renegotiate Relations with the West

Author(s): Andrei Zagorski
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 26
Pages: 2-5
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2007

Russian foreign policy appears to be going in circles. Each new president begins by emphasizing - or repairing - the relationship with the West, only to end his time in office by questioning and jeopardizing it. It remains an open question if Putin's successor will seek a new accommodation with the West.

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