"The Russian-American Role in managing Crises : Syrian Crisis as a Model"

Abstract

Russian-American relations in the modern era have gone through several stages, dominated by the nature of conflict and competition, more than cooperation, which has not yet risen to the level of strategic partnership between the two parties. If the US-Soviet relations had left an impact on the international balance of power during the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian Federation ended what was known at the time as the Cold War, to start a new phase in the international system called the unipolar world, expressing the uniqueness of the United States in hegemony over The world, especially after Russia came out burdened with heavy economic burdens and commitments that made it in a weak position affiliated with the United States, especially in the first half of the nineties of the last century. One of the events in the Middle East, which has come under American hegemony and influence to a large extent, resulting in wars in which the United States occupied Afghanistan and Iraq The Middle East was and still is one of the most vital regions in the world that has witnessed rounds of US-Russian competition, especially in the Syrian crisis, because of its important strategic location, and the huge natural resources it contains, the most important of which are oil and gas, which are the most important sources of energy in the world, and who controls them. It controls the fate of the world today.