the diplomatic relationship between the US and Russia since the 21st century: through the 2013 Snowden Disclosure

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
International Studies

Academic Year 2013/14 Spring Semester

AS3003 Dissertation: Final Presentation
Mie Nakachi

The diplomatic relationship between the United States and Russia since the 21th century: through the 2013 affair of Snowden Disclosure.

Ailin MA

Student ID: 6507702

Word Count: 10991

Abstracts

The research focuses on the development of the diplomatic relationship between the United States and Russia since the 21st century, through the 2013 affair of Snowden Disclosure. It attempts to find out the reasons why this relations being not steady enough. More specifically, this research answers the questions, for instance, why the two sides intended to cooperate after September 11, why this cooperation did not maintained longtime even the bilateral relationship reached a nadir in 2008 Russo-Georgian War, why Obama’s reset was not effective in his second term of office, and why Putin administration granted Snowden’s temporary asylum in Russia. Case study is used as the main method to prove my statements. And eventually, this research summarizes the difficulties that the two states had experienced in previous 13 years.

Contents

Introduction

In the summer of 2013, Edward Snowden’s leaking of the PRISM global surveillance program and releasing thousands of classified documents has raised attention around the world. With the development of this affair, then Snowden escaped to Russia and applyed for temporary asylum in Russia. After more than a month’s waiting, Russia government finally granted it, while during which U.S. government had requested Russia to extradite Snowden. Therefore, the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Russia seemed to be in dilemma once again.

The United States and Russia (the Soviet Union), as once two superpowers in the world, the diplomatic relations between these two

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