Abstract

FREIRE, Maria Raquel. The administrations of Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev: an overview. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2012, n.34, pp.61-72. ISSN 1645-9199.

The administrations of Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev: an overview This paper analyses the United States-Russia relationship in a changing context of growing challenges that have marked the mandates of Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev.The text starts by tracing the context where Obama and Medvedev come to power, and the dwindling of tensions that were very much present in this relationship, particularly in 2007 and 2008, leading to the Georgia war and the reset policy. The reset policy allowed the revision of procedures and the consolidation of trust, though the paper argues that effective coordination of policies and practices between Russia and the United States is still far from an objective reality.

Keywords : United States; Russia; Barack Obama; Dmitry Medvedev.

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