Abstract
The collapse of the Soviet Union saw Russia emerge as the key successor state to the USSR, with a leadership that seemed committed to democracy and the free market. The ideological, political and economic issues which had divided East from West seemed to have disappeared as both Western and Russian leaderships appeared to share the same aspirations and values. In this context, on Christmas Eve 1991 George Bush spoke of a future partnership between Russia and the United States, a hope shared by the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin and the Foreign Minister, Andrei Kozyrev (Burns, 1995, p.296). US President Clinton talked of a new foreign policy — ‘the goal of containment of Soviet expansion is to be replaced by a partnership with democratic Russia’ (Brzezinski, 1994, p.67). At the UN early in 1992 Yeltsin talked of the development of co-operation and the aligning of relations with the West. There was in 1991–2 a genuine feeling that the end of the Cold War had brought about, as Warren Christopher the US Secretary of State, put it, ‘... a unique historical moment, when none of the great powers views any other as an immediate military threat’ (Talbott, 1995, p.8).KeywordsForeign PolicySecurity CouncilForeign MinisterBaltic StateSoviet RepublicThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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