ABSTRACT
The United States wanted to show that it did not consider Russia as its sole interlocutor in Eurasia, nor concede to it an exclusive sphere of influence there. In practice, while it was the focus of considerable American attention, Eastern Europe was dealt with particularly through the prism of the wars of the former Yugoslavia and of US-Russian relations rather more than in its own right as a region. Echoing the development of the strategy of democratic enlargement within the administration, it stated that: In Eastern Europe, the United States therefore had a major stake in the success of reform for its own sake and in relation to US goals in the former Soviet Union. One study finds that democratization under Yeltsin was successful relative to some states of Eastern Europe and Eurasia and that American support for him helped democratic consolidation.
