Dismantling the WestAs the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the development of a coherent transatlantic community. Under the Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev presidencies, the Russian Federation has set for itself an ambitious foreign policy goal of counterbalancing U.