Abstract

FREIRE, Maria Raquel. Assessment time: symmetries and asymmetries in the presidential mandates of George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2008, n.19, pp.135-145. ISSN 1645-9199.

In an election year both in Russia and the United States, this article tries to assess the impact of the nearly simultaneous mandates of George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin on the relationship between those two countries. Its main conclusions point to a different ‘intensity’ in the way they pursued their goals and implemented their policies; to the basic similarity in the means employed by Washington and Moscow in their foreign and national security policies, and to the persistence of the same topics in the Russian-American agenda in these last eight years (the governance model, strategic and security options, energy issues).

Keywords : George Bush; Vladimir Putin; Russian-American Relations; Conflict in Geórgia.

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