Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256065 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 22/2008
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The conflict over Georgia has had one positive implication: the United States and Europe are forced to think strategically in dealing with Russia. Since the end of the cold war, Russia - and this is sometimes hard to understand for Europeans - has had little salience to US foreign policy. The selective cooperation on nonproliferation issues and on fighting transnational terrorism does not amount to a strategic policy. For the Europeans, despite the higher importance attached to Russia, developing a common policy was never easy, but has become more difficult because of EU enlargement to the East. Although the EU and the United States have shown a rather high degree of unity in the immediate response to the crisis over Georgia, we are still far away from a transatlantic convergence of perceptions, interests, and preferred strategic approaches in reacting to an assertive Russia
Document Type: 
Research Report

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