U.S., Russia and the Global War on Terror: "Shoulder to Shoulder" into Battle?

The demise of the Soviet Union shifted paradigms around the world, causingmany to conceive of a new era of cooperation between the new Russian Federation and the United States. Following the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on 11 September 2001, many assumed the resultant war on terrorism would finally unite the two nations against a common enemy, aligning interests as never before. In some ways cooperation was enhanced, but interests were hardly aligned. The siege of the Beslan middle school ...