US foreign policy towards the Russian Federation: The constrained Empire

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 65 (UK system), University of Kent, language: English, abstract: The end of the cold war in 1989 and 1990 appeared without warning. The upheavals that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall were dramatic. Within less than one year since November 9, 1989 the three Baltic states declared their independence from the Soviet Union (S....