Towards a quick restart of the US-Russia competition?

In a recent article on The International Spectator with Marco Valigi, I describe the US stance towards Russia in the post-Cold War as characterized by a cyclical pattern with two major phases. The first one, namely the “reset”, has been characterised by the prevailing of cooperative over competitive policies, aimed at integrating Moscow into the so-called “liberal order”. Due to Washington’s non-acceptance of Russian demand of recognition of its sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space, the reset has subsequently been replaced by a “restart” phase. This was marked by the pre-eminence of competitive policies, resulting in a zero-sum game scenario.

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