Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

      From the beginning of his presidency, Vladimir Putin announced that reaching to an appropriate position in global equations and regaining position of a “Great Power” of Russia is the main goal of his government. Considering a realistic approach, he could approximately keep the ascending movement of dignifying of his country in the global hierarchy. Emphasizes of Russia in this period was on the necessity of redistribution of power and its attempts for a more appropriate position in the world order structure, which leads to worries of U.S. form possibility of changes in this structure and loosing its superior position in it. Theses developments lead to preventive reactions from U.S, which results in new period of tensions between U.S. and Russia. This paper tries to deal with the quality of these tensions and their underling reasons.