A Realistic Approach to Power Relations between the USA and Russia in the Context of the Current World Order
A Realistic Approach to Power Relations between the USA and Russia in the Context of the Current World Order

Author(s): Eugen Lungu
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: United States of America; Russian Federation; multipolar world order; military power; political realism;
Summary/Abstract: After more than three decades of bipolar epoch, followed by the fall of the Berlin Wall,the United States of America became the unique superpower in international relations.Currently, there is a multipolar era, in which the world power has distributed to many actorsin the international arena. The United States of America and the Russian Federation are twoof the greatest powers of the new multipolar epoch, whose state-of-the-art geostrategicrelationships will influence the way the world order in the 21st century will be configured.Russia’s opposition to Washington’s actions in the post-Cold War era is one of the causes thatgradually resulted in the transition to a multipolar era in the international system. The presentpaper briefly presents, by the political realism perspective, the dynamic of the USA and theRussian Federation power relations, in the context of the current multipolar world order.

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