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Europe Factor in the U.S.-Russian Relations
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Политические проблемы международных отношений, глобального и регионального развития
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33 Экономика. Народное хозяйство. Экономические науки
93/94 История
32 Политика
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State Academic University for the Humanities
Date of publication
30.05.2019
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2019
DOI
10.18254/S207054760005387-2
Europe Factor in the U.S.-Russian Relations
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The article deals with the basic trends in the Russia – United States – Europe triangle in the period of Donald Trump presidency. Trump’s ‘America First’ slogan could not but affect the U.S. – European relations. After taking office, the new U.S. President had to change his pre-election rhetoric in order to avoid deepening deterioration of those relations and to slow down the centrifugal trends in NATO. Yet it did not eliminate the core problems that emerged in the Trump era. The author comes to a conclusion that mobilizing the European allies to countering the 'Russian aggression' has become a rare instrument to find a common denominator between Washington and Europe, given the crisis that Trump's unilateralist policies and his mercantilist approach to the NATO allies provoked in the U.S. - European ties. The article reveals inability and unwillingness of the European nations to influence the U.S. policies towards Russia in a positive direction. The author argues that the U.S. sanctions against Russia imposed after the beginning of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, are viewed by Washington as a tool for implementing the U.S. geo-economic – and not only geopolitical – influence. In this sense, following these sanctions weaken Europe,s position. The article also dwells upon U.S. efforts to exploit the European exposure to the Russian 'pressure' – especially in the energy sphere – to limit Europe's independent capabilities in cooperation with Russia. In this context, countering the ‘hybrid warfare’ that Moscow is allegedly waging against the Euro-Atlantic community, has become a new pretext for Washington to engage the allies in the efforts to contain Russia.

Russia and America in the 21st Century. 2019 Special Issue
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Pavel Smirnov
Senior Research Fellow
Department for Foreign Policy Studies, Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
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