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President Barack Obama has outlined an impressive arms control agenda, but he will need informed and active people throughout the world to help him realize it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the tensions that have been responsible for poor foreign relations between Russia and the U.S. While Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama held an April 1, 2009 meeting in which they vowed to set aside mentalities stemming from the Cold War, the author questions whether this conflict is responsible for a lack of diplomacy between the nations. America’s policy toward formerly communist nations is examined, including outreach deriving from organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The author examines a history of diplomacy-based interactions between the U.S. and Russia, specifically focusing on the rapport between former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and former U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

This article discusses how interpretations of the end of the Cold War in 1991 affected Russian relations with the U.S. The author believes that politics in the developing world complicate claims that U.S.-Soviet Union relations dominated world politics during the Cold War. Debates about whether the U.S. nuclear weapons policy under President Ronald Reagan or Soviet opposition to nuclear warfare strategies under Premier Mikhail Gorbachev led to the end of U.S.-Soviet conflict are criticised.

Alexander Dugin, influential Russian geo-politician and proponent of Eurasianism, regards Russia as a heartland state that should engage in a web of alliances with various Eurasian powers to confront Russia's natural enemy, the US. While Eurasianism has been quite popular in the late Yeltsin era and Putin regime, it is important for other reasons as well. It demonstrates that, in the wake of the Cold War, the most unexpected combinations could happen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]