THE NECESSARY PARTNERSHIP - THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA

Having identified three previous postwar attempts by US Presidents to construct cooperative relationships with the Soviet Union, all of whic h failed, the author examines in detail that embarked upon by Presiden t Clinton since his election in 1992. Looking first at the roots of Cl inton's policy towards the disintegrating USSR during the election cam paign and at the perceived orientation of the new administration towar ds domestic rather than foreign issues, he analyses the formation and execution of White House policy towards post-Soviet Russia and conclud es that while it has been subject to serious difficulty, and while the future remains uncertain in the extreme, US strategy towards Russia a nd the other former Soviet republics is unlikely to change radically w hile Clinton remains President.