Abstract
In the months following the fall of the Soviet Union the West was
filled wit h a sense of hope. Indeed, it seemed that the old enemy was ready to embrace Western liberal-democratic values and the free-market economy. Although
this illusion has been cultivated in the West for a long time, the invasions of
Georgia and Ukraine, and the hybrid and information warfare launched by
Moscow against the Transatlantic area have clearly shown that the geopolitical
and historical regularities still matter in the XXI century. Therefore, it appears vital to understand the reasons why the Western approach has failed, and which are
the main dynamics underlining the relations between the West and Russia in the
last thirty years. At the same time, dwelling on the victory of Donald Trump in
2016 and his tenure as President of the United States, particularly with regard to
US-Russia relations, it is necessary to put the present time in the right perspective,
avoiding drawing hasty, and wrong, conclusions on a presidency more traditional
than often painted. The aim is to create a framework to understand the past and
face the future with great awareness.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The West and the return of Russia |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 73-96 |
Numero di pagine | 24 |
Rivista | QUADERNI DI SCIENZE POLITICHE |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2019 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |
Keywords
- NATO
- Occidente
- Russia