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By Angela Stent, professor of Government...
welcomed the U.S. decision to scrap deployments in Central Europe, but the United States will have a missile defense program, and this could still become a problem for the reset. On the other hand, both sides could work together on a cooperative BMD program if the will is there.The Former Soviet Space: the reset seems to be working in Russia’s neighborhood inasmuch as tensions over this issue have abated. So far, the situation in Georgia is relatively quiet and the second round of the Ukrainian elections will produce a president who will navigate carefully between Russia and the West. The Obama administration has adopted a more low-key approach to the area. Nevertheless, the issue of how great a U.S. and European presence in the post-Soviet space Russia is willing to tolerate in the longer-run remains unresolved.
Euro-Atlantic Security: there are two Russian proposals on the table—President Medevdev’s European Security Treaty and Foreign Minister
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