HIST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Silovik, Multilateralism, Viktor Yanukovych
20 Feb 2018
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This module focused on the post-cold war evolution of us-russian relations. The answers and conclusions of this module are only tentative as we looked at the present. However, they can help us understand the ever-changing landscape of international relations. It is hard to make judgments on contemporary issues, therefore, many historians tend to stray away from doing such. The closer we move to the present, the more ideological disagreements, political blame games, clashes of national and personal interest, as well as rumours and speculations tend to obscure or picture. As us-russian relations continue to deteriorate , more parallels to the cold war are seen, could there possibly be another cold war. While there are similarities to the cold war and our present situation, there are of course also many differences. Some differences: missing from russian foreign policy; communist ideology, current conflict not between global alliances, while nato is around, warsaw pact is gone (nothing similar has been created since)
