Realism about Russia.

The National Interest | September 22, 2001| | Copyright

REACTING TO THE Bush Administration's promise of "realism" in dealing with Russia, a former Clinton Administration official observed that "the issue is what is reality."' Indeed it is.

Clinton Administration officials had their reality: Russia was on the path to liberal democracy; albeit stumbling occasionally; it was building the institutions for an effective market economy, although suffering periodic setbacks; its large arsenal of nuclear weapons entitled it to major power status, but at the same time the United States could help to reduce significantly the ...

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