A New Cold War Thirty Years Later: Preliminary Comparative Analysis
The present study focuses on the current status of Russian-American relations characterized by domestic and foreign media as a new cold war. The article analyzes general trends of a new cold war as a phenomena of current world politics and describes common routs and differences between American-Soviet global rivalry in 50-80 of the XX century and crises in the up to date Russian -US relationship. Author pays special attention to the etiology, main threats and challenges and possible ways out of cold war stalemate.