Getting Russia Right

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start.  Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it?  Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today?  With a practitioner's eye honed during decades of work on Russian affa