America against all: The United States’ Struggle to Maintain Global Hegemony

The review article is an analytical study of the fundamental, multifaceted, and highly professional, scientific monograph "America Against All", prepared by a team of authors from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Based on the content of the monograph, it examines both the historical aspects of Russian-American relations – including Russia's assistance in preserving U.S. statehood during the Civil War of the 19th century and the sale of Alaska to the Americans – as well as their state during the Cold War, détente in the 1970s, the collapse of the USSR, the post-Soviet period, and the present. The article substantiates that the United States’ inescapable desire for global domination logically follows from concepts of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority, which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, over all other races and peoples. It further shows that Congress imbued with Russophobia. has repeatedly impeded the normalization of relations between the United States and Russia, and that the current divide within U.S. society and the risks leading to a new civil war. The article concludes that this monograph is a significant and innovative contribution to the modern development of Russian American studies.