A STRATEGIC CONCEPT FOR US-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

According to Mr. Henry Kissinger, the goal should be to develop a strategic concept for U.S.-Russian relations within which the points of contention may be managed

Key Questions to be addressed

1. How does the United States work together with Russia, a country which does not share all its values but is an indispensable component of the international order?
2. How does Russia exercise its security interests without raising alarms around its periphery and accumulating adversaries?
3. Can Russia gain a respected place in global affairs with which the United States is comfortable? Can the United States pursue its values without being perceived as threatening to impose them?
4. What are the trends that are eroding the old order and shaping the new one?
5. What challenges do the changes pose to both Russian and American national interests?
6. What role does each country want to play in shaping that order, and what position can it reasonably and ultimately hope to occupy in that new order?
7. How do we reconcile the very different concepts of world order that have evolved in Russia and the United States — and in other major powers — on the basis of historical experience?