Russia: Rebuilding an Empire While It Can

By Lauren GoodrichU.S.-Russian relations seem to have been relatively quiet recently, as there are numerous contradictory views in Washington about the true nature of Russia’s current foreign policy. Doubts remain about the sincerity of the U.S. State Department’s so-called “reset” of relations with Russia — the term used in 2009 when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed a reset button to her Russian counterpart as a symbol of a freeze on escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington. The concern is whether the “reset” is truly a shift in relations between the two former adversaries or simply a respite before relations deteriorate again.

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„Furtuni ideologice. Intelectualii și tentația ideologiei” – conferinţă la Washington D.C.

În zilele de 14 şi 15 noiembrie 2011, la Washington D.C. va avea loc conferinţa „Furtuni ideologice. Intelectualii și tentația ideologiei”. Evenimentul este organizat de Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies din cadrul University of Maryland (College Park) și Institutul Cultural Român, în colaborare cu Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University), Comparative Politics and Political Theory Fields (Department of Government and Politics U-MD) și Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii.

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