Publication

This issue of the RAD takes the measure of Russia’s current relations with the West. More specifically, Sergey Markedonov first rejects the idea that we are collectively lapsing into a new Cold War. If anything, the current frictions that exist are attributable to differing accounts of what constitute violations of world order and international law. In the second article, Ulrich Kühn explains why Putin’s Russia continues to pursue the same status quo-oriented approach that the country has followed since the end of the Cold War -- i.e., resisting changes to the relative distribution of global power by a variety of means.