The Limited Partnership : Building a Russian-Us Security Community

Distinguished Service Professor in the Program on International Peace and Security James E Goodby
Oxford University Press (UK)
 9780198291619
0-19-829161-2

Can the United States afford to be less concerned with security in its relation with Russia now that the Soviet Union has disappeared? This work argues that the Russian-U.S. relationship is metastable--small.

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inputs can produce large changes--and that serious attention must be given to the cooperative management of common security. Leading experts examine several trends and problem areas in three different contexts--the transition from the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation and its implications for security and foreign policy; the relation between military power and international stability after the Cold War; the political, military, and technological means available for building a Russian-U.S. security community.