{"title":"Foreign policy","authors":"R. Sakwa","doi":"10.1163/9789004380158_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004380158_017","url":null,"abstract":"When the April 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and a group of nations including the United States was concluded, the Obama administration scrambled to assure Saudi Arabia (Iran’s rival in the Middle East) of American friendship. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Saudi Arabia three times in 2016. During his third visit, this past December, he declared: “In turbulent times, it’s good to have solid friends.”","PeriodicalId":380318,"journal":{"name":"Russian Politics and Society","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128510602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The disintegration of the USSR","authors":"R. Sakwa","doi":"10.4324/9781003053569-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053569-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380318,"journal":{"name":"Russian Politics and Society","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124291737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}