The unexpected and rapid collapse of the Soviet Union has had
significant implications for both the international and regional
balance of power. The United State has devised a new formulation
for its national security concept. This new strategy sa
w the need to
overcome the geographical boundaries and then came the second
Gulf war to represent an opportunity for the US to implement its
vision of working unilaterally and combating any potential hegemon
even from the European allies. For its part, Russia has endeavoured
to reconstruct its relations with the world, especially with its
neighbours, former allies and yesterday's enemy of the liberal West,
and also to restructure its foreign policy, opening up to the West and
deal with it on the basis of common interests, and dismantling
Warsaw pact to enter into a new security project.
