POL S 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Near Abroad, Eurasian Economic Community, Neocolonialism
19 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Wars in afghanistan and iraq: the united states is accused by russia of aggression, expansionism - russia believes us wants to take over near russian states, neo-colonialism. Russian support of saddam hussein: history of supporting dictators, loans, weaponry. Libya: historically kremlin supported gadda , regular sales of arms and equipment, medvedev supported the un intervention in libya (2011, but russia stalled any and all further resolutions on libya and the developing syrian con ict. How to achieve goals: develop a multi-polar world (with russia as one of the major poles, strengthen international organizations and create new ones, follow international law to the letter (when useful to putin obviously) Speci cally: restore and expand bilateral relations with many nations, emphasize parity and equality with washington, commonwealth of independent states-not a good working relationship, some states happy with russian ties, other states never want to be with russia again.
