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来源类型 | Op-Ed |
规范类型 | 评论 |
How Will Russia React to Obama, Round Two? | |
Lilia Shevtsova | |
发表日期 | 2012-11-09 |
出处 | American Interest |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Both the Kremlin and the Russian opposition hope to use the United States and its policies to serve their own domestic agendas. |
正文 | The question posed by my title doesn’t quite hit the mark. Just as one cannot really speak of a single “America”, there is no one “Russia” anymore but rather several Russias. But while each different Russia has its own interests, attitudes and moods, there is something that unites them all with respect to America: The United States is on all of their radars. All of the various Russias hope to use the United States and its policy to serve their own domestic agendas. (In contrast to this, Russia largely fell off America’s radar after the fall of the Soviet Union.) How, then, will the various Russias react to the renewed Obama presidency? Let’s start with the official Russia—that is, Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. Along with David Kramer, I have already discussed what the Russian establishment and Putin’s regime could have expected from either possible election result on November 6. I will only add here a couple of brushstrokes to that landscape now that we know the results of the election. Moscow’s official rhetoric and actions over the past year—that is, after Putin officially returned to the Kremlin—allow us to conclude that the Kremlin’s position on the United States would have been based on the following premises no matter who America hired as boss in the White House:
The Kremlin may view a second Obama term as a boon in its project to update its foreign policy stance. That new stance would help consolidate the idea of Russia as an independent civilization that desires to be integrated into the globalization project on its own terms. There are signs that the Kremlin architects of this update and pro-Kremlin experts believe that President Obama can hardly be expected to take a more assertive position with respect to Russia, which will mean undermining his “reset” past. Even if Obama wanted to rethink the “reset”, these experts believe, he could afford neither to ignore Russia nor to confront it. That is why they expect the Obama administration to continue to play its current hand in its poker game with Putin’s Kremlin. ... |
主题 | Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions ; Hybrid War: Russia vs. the West ; Putinology ; 2012 Carnegie Election Guide: A View From Moscow |
URL | https://carnegie.ru/2012/11/09/how-will-russia-react-to-obama-round-two-pub-49989 |
来源智库 | Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/428561 |
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