Title A new era in U.S.-Russian strategic stability : how changing geopolitics and emerging technologies are reshaping pathways to crisis and conflict / James N. Miller Jr. and Richard Fontaine

Published Washington, DC : Center for a New American Security, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (42 pages) : color illustrations Contents Introduction -- Pathway type #1 : the future course of U.S.-Russian relations -- Pathway type #2 : an increasingly slippery slope toward rapid escalation -- Pathway type #3 : on the road to strategic instability? -- Conclusion and way ahead Summary "For more than two decades following the end of the Cold War, military conflict between the United States and Russia seemed highly implausible. While relations were sometimes rocky, few if any imagined that any disagreements between Washington and Moscow carried much risk of escalation to a serious crisis, let alone war. Even amid the Kosovo crisis of the late 1990s, only a few Russians -- and fewer Americans -- took seriously the possibility of bilateral disputes turning into conflict. Indeed, both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, each in their own way, attempted to 'reset' relations with Russia and replace stagnating ties with positive-sum arrangements ... With the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in 2017, there have been some signs of the potential for improved relations -- but also signs of increased tensions as the U.S. Congress passed substantial additional sanctions on Russian entities in retaliation for Russian 'hacking' of the U.S. Presidential election. Moscow retaliated by ordering a reduction of U.S. diplomatic staff and seizing U.S. diplomatic compounds in Russia. As of the time of this report, there is tremendous uncertainty -- and not a small amount of risk -- regarding the future of U.S.-Russian relations"--Publisher's web site Notes "September 2017." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-42) Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (CNAS, viewed September 27, 2017) Subject Diplomatic relations. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 21st century Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- United States -- History -- 21st century Subject Russia (Federation) United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Fontaine, Richard, author. Center for a New American Security, publisher.

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