Celebrating the Spirit of the Elbe: From the 1950s Revival of Soviet-American Relations to the Reset of the 2010s
Early this year, the international media made much of the latest US National Defense Strategy which emphasized „great power competition“ as the primary focus of current US national security.[1] Directed against both Russia and China, representatives from both countries criticized the strategy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regretted the US need to „prove their leadership through such confrontational strategies and concepts.“[2] We have been seeing an escalation in the disc