2010–14 Collapse of cooperation and return to confrontation
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

This chapter’s starts with the context of attempted US/UK political resets in the relationship between Russia and the West. The resets could not, however, hide the reality of the deep political divisions between the two sides nor that these resets were ultimately doomed to failure as manifested Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Nevertheless naval cooperation did continue and a high profile visit by the head of the Russian Navy in 2012, Admiral Chirkov, mirrored the effort being made at the