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100			_aKofman, Michael and Taylor Andrea Kendall _932992
245			_aThe myth of Russian decline: Why Moscow will be a persistent power
260			_aForeign Affairs
300			_a100(6), Nov-Dec, 2021: p.142-152
520			_aThe Biden administration came into office with a clear and unambiguous foreign policy priority: countering a rising China. The administration’s public statements, its early national security planning documents, and its initial diplomatic forays have all suggested that pushing back against Beijing’s growing global influence will be Washington’s national security focus, alongside transnational threats such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The question of how to deal with Russia, by contrast, has taken a back seat, returning to the fore only when Russian troops amassed on Ukraine’s border in April. That crisis served as a reminder of the danger of looking past Moscow—yet by July, President Joe Biden was back to declaring that Russia was “sitting on top of an economy that has nuclear weapons and oil wells and nothing else.” – Reproduced
773			_aForeign Affairs
906			_aINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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