A New Cold War? - Assessing the Current US-Russia Relationship

This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a 'New Cold War'. It examines four key dimensions of the original Cold War, the structural, the ideological, the psychological, and the technological, and argues that the current US-Russia relationship bears little resemblance to the Cold War. Presently, the international system is transitioning towards multipolarity, with Russia a declining power, while current ideological differences and threat perceptions are neither as rigid nor as bleak as they once were. Ultimately, when the four dimensions of analysis are weighed in unison, this work argues that the claim of a New Cold War is a hyperbolic assessment of US-Russia relations.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. A four-dimensional neoclassical realist framework.- 3. The structural dimension of US-Russia relations.- 4. The ideological dimension of US-Russia relations.- 5. The psychological dimension of US-Russia relations.- 6. The technological dimension of US-Russia relations.- 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Nicholas Ross Smith is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China.

Summary

This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a ‘New Cold War’. It examines four key dimensions of the original Cold War, the structural, the ideological, the psychological, and the technological, and argues that the current US-Russia relationship bears little resemblance to the Cold War. Presently, the international system is transitioning towards multipolarity, with Russia a declining power, while current ideological differences and threat perceptions are neither as rigid nor as bleak as they once were. Ultimately, when the four dimensions of analysis are weighed in unison, this work argues that the claim of a New Cold War is a hyperbolic assessment of US-Russia relations.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Ross Smith
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030206741
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3020674-1
• No. of pages: 86
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 217 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Illustrations: XI, 86 p. 2 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Internationale Beziehungen, Diplomatie, Europa, C, Amerika, Russia, European Politics, Political Science, International Relations, foreign policy, Politics & government, Political Science and International Studies, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, Geschichte anderer geographischer Gruppierungen und Regionen, US Politics, United States—Politics and government, Europe, Eastern—History, History of specific lands, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Russia—History, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Russia—Politics and government, American Politics