Re-Booting NATO-Russia Relations
Russia’s foremost foreign-policy goal is a real, strategic partnership with the West in which both sides work together to solve the multitude of modern security problems. Unfortunately, as last summer's Georgia crisis demonstrated, that goal is far from the relationship that exists now.
MOSCOW – The crisis in Georgia last August tested Europe’s security system, and the system failed to fulfill its core task of ensuring common security for the continent as a whole. As a result, Europe must re-examine its current security arrangements, analyze what happened, and take this analysis into account in reforming those arrangements.