No. 138 - Failed reset of American-Russian relations?

Institute for Western Affairs' Bulletin (No. 138/2013) Prof. Jadwiga Kiwerska, "Failed reset of American-Russian relations?"

When the White House announced on August 7, 2013 that the meeting between President Barack Obama and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin would be cancelled, commentators and analysts responded quite unambiguously. They saw the cancellation as evidence of a complete collapse in US-Russian relations throwing the players back to nearly cold-war-era standards. Without a doubt, the crisis brought about by the US analyst Edward Snowden could spell a fiasco for the American policy on Moscow launched with the widely-publicized reset in mutual relations. But does it really?