I senaste numret av Foreign Affairs har Rysslandsexperten Stephen Kotkin, professor i historia och internationella relationer vid Princeton, bidragit med en intressant analys av Rysslands grand strategy i världspolitiken genom århundraden. Vi återger här ett par av hans nyckelpassager.
Kotkins senaste arbete är första delen (av planerade tre) av en biografi över Josef Stalin.
”Russia today is not a revolutionary power threatening to overthrow the international order. Moscow operates within a familiar great-power school of international relations, one that prioritizes room for maneuver over morality and assumes the inevitability of conflict, the supremacy of hard power, and the cynicism of others’ motives. In certain places and on certain issues, Russia has the ability to thwart U.S. interests, but it does not even remotely approach the scale of the threat posed by the Soviet Union, so there is no need to respond to it with a new Cold War.