14.08.2008, 16:55
Hier zwei Artikel, die sich mit der derzeitigen russischen Außenpolitik beschäftigen, aus der Perspektive westlicher Staaten:
Quelle:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...rible.html
Und dann noch ein kritischer Kommentar aus britischer Sicht:
Quelle:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...517727.ece
Zitat:Russian Nationalism on the March
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
WASHINGTON -- In "Rebuilding Russia," published as the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that the "awakening Russian national self-awareness has to a large extent been unable to free itself of great-power thinking and of imperial delusions ... it has taken over from the communists the fraudulent and contrived notion of Soviet patriotism." As all prescient statements, it was a shrewd reading of the present, not the future. The Russian invasion of Georgia is a powerful confirmation of Solzhenitsyn's words.
Of course, one could reverse his argument: Soviet imperialism was a continuation, not an antecedent, of Russian nationalism.
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Quelle:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...rible.html
Und dann noch ein kritischer Kommentar aus britischer Sicht:
Zitat:From The TimesAugust 13, 2008
Strutting Russia is heading for a fall
Opinion is hardening against the Kremlin. For all its bluster, it is weak and vulnerable
Richard Beeston
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Flush with billions from the sale of oil and gas, the Kremlin may calculate that it does not need allies in the West and would rather be respected and feared than befriended.
That too would be a serious mistake. For all its big-power bluster, Russia is weak and vulnerable. Russian tanks and aircraft may have smashed the fledgeling Georgian Army with ease, but most of the weaponry was Cold War-era and many of the troops conscripts. Anyone who has seen the Russian Army operating in the Caucasus knows that the military will need a generation to modernise. Meanwhile America, and its main Nato allies, are decades ahead in military technology and combat experience.
Russia is also facing a severe demographic crisis. Its population is shrinking by 700,000 people a year. The UN estimates the population will fall below 100 million by 2050, down from around 146 million today.
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Quelle:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...517727.ece