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...over the next six years) to protect the country from missile attack. But his ambitious hopes to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" have been dramatically downsized. Reagan envisioned a network of satellites, sensors and even space-based weapons capable of thwarting a massive missile strike from the Soviet Union or China. But with the Cold War's end, the scale of the threat has also been reduced to that posed by a handful of "rogue states" with the means to develop such weapons and the mentality to brandish, or even launch them, toward...
...actor on the world stage, and which preserves what Russia thinks of as its traditional prerogatives in its immediate neighborhood. A senior Bush Administration official says the main message from the Kremlin is that "Russia's back, back like it hasn't been since the breakup of the Soviet Union." What does that mean for the rest of the world...
...world "just aren't how Western governments or public opinion work nowadays," says Lyne. There's no simple way to solve the complex challenges a buoyant but flawed Russia poses. And it's worth remembering that today's Russia is a very different beast from the old Soviet Union, with its aggressive military posture and proselytizing ideology. That's why every G-8 leader, from the time Mikhail Gorbachev first inched down the path of perestroika, has concluded that the wisest course is to help Russia help itself: persuading its leaders that their interest lies in following international norms, while...
...troubling deeds is one reason why there is a deep ambivalence in Europe, the U.S. and Asia about Russia's entire energy policy at a time of growing concern over the security of future energy supplies. Russia lost much of its global clout with the dissolution of the Soviet Union 15 years ago, but after successfully reversing a production slump in the early 1990s, it has re-emerged as an energy superpower. Last year it was the world's second largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. In gas, it is the undisputed world leader, with proven reserves almost double those...
...little time in France and Spain--the blue states of Europe--and so much in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia, countries once behind the Iron Curtain where his odes to democracy are particularly resonant. Beyond just visiting, Bush has been pushing for the eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, which would give the map of Europe more of a red-state look...