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By Andrei Tsygankov

ISBN-10: 0230614183

ISBN-13: 9780230614185

The ebook explains why the US-Russia post-9/11 partnership didn't undergo. Washington subsidized clear of its preliminary dedication to a brand new point of cooperation with Moscow in addressing problems with terrorism, power protection, political instability and guns proliferation. a lot of America’s coverage is formed via an ambition to stay the one world’s superpower and by means of actions of curiosity teams with the schedule of separating Russia from the Western global. even supposing those teams don't dictate the authentic coverage, their effect has been remarkable. The e-book analyzes the unfavorable position played by Russophobia and formulates a special method of Russia within the post-Cold battle world. 

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I discuss the Lobby’s objectives, its tactics to achieve them, the history of its formation and rise to prominence, and the conditions that preserved its influence in the aftermath of 9/11. I argue that Russophobia has been important to American hegemonic elites in pressuring Russia for economic and political concessions in the post–Cold War era. T 1. Goals and Means Objectives The central objective of the Lobby has been to preserve and strengthen America’s power in the post–Cold War world through imperial or hegemonic policies.

S. 51 Soon after the war, the previously identified schools that were promoting American values and military power abroad began to converge in the face of the growing prospect of Soviet expansionism. Isolationism was no longer an option, as everything became increasingly subject to fighting the Soviets across the globe. Freedom House, initially created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to prepare American public opinion for war and defend independence of a free France, was turned into a propaganda machine against the Soviets.

These three, Hamiltonianism, Wilsonianism, and Jacksonianism, represent different forms of American internationalism, and they have endured in the country’s foreign policy. Together, the three traditions had the potential to shape the world in the image of the United States, and, were Russia to stand in the way, the Russophobic stereotypes could have developed in the manner of other cultural stereotypes that America developed about China, Japan, Germany, and Muslim nations at later stages. S. international behavior.

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