The US Power Projection in the Post-Soviet Space: Policies and Practices
Journal: The Review of International Affairs
Year: 2025

The article analyses the US policies in the post-Soviet space as an example of how a great power can stimulate specific political order in a region.The author states that the US strategic framework in this space does not contradict the deterrence imperatives towards the USSR.Depending on its short-term goals in relations with Russia, US foreign policy follows a seven-or eight-year cycle of stimulation of the decentralisation processes in the region.After the dissolution of the USSR, the first cl