The US and Russia: They Don't Need Us
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2015

Russia"s international behavior during the last decade puzzles many American observers.As seen from Washington, the greatest current challenges-terrorism, nuclear proliferation, climate change-are global ones that threaten all states.The US, the world"s only remaining superpower, has been trying to organize multilateral responses.Yet, on issue after issue, the Kremlin has proved singularly unhelpful.For years, Russian negotiators stalled efforts to compel Iran and North Korea to give up nuclear