From Antagonism to Partnership : The Uneasy Path of the U.S.-Russian Cooperative Threat Reduction / Togzhan Kassenova, Andreas Umland, Christoph Bluth

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kassenova, Togzhan, Author.

Contributor:

Umland, Andreas, Editor.

Bluth, Christoph, Author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear disarmament--Russia (Federation).

Nuclear disarmament.

Nuclear nonproliferation--Russia (Federation).

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Technical assistance, American--Former Soviet republics.

Technical assistance, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2014

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

The author:Togzhan Kassenova, BA (Almaty), MA (Reading), PhD (Leeds) was a Senior Researcher for a UK FCO/Global Opportunities Fund project at Almaty in 2004-2006, and an Affiliated Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden, The Netherlands, in 2006. Since 2006, she has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research in Almaty. In 2007-2008, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. The foreword author:Dr Christoph Bluth is Professor of International Studies at the University of Leeds (UK).

Summary:

This book is a study of cooperative security efforts between the United States and Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It undertakes an analysis of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Programme and several other programmes established by different U.S. Departments. The CTR process demonstrates both, the achievements and limitations of the evolving new framework of interaction between the U.S. and Russia. This investigation is the first attempt to use the CTR process as a case study for U.S.-Russian strategic relations in the post-Cold War international security system. By answering the questions of why this process is prone to some persistent problems of implementation and why it was possible in the first place, it yields significant conclusions regarding the nature of U.S.-Russian relations, and the achievements as well as limitations in the bilateral relationship since the end of the Cold War.From Antagonism to Partnership contributes to the existing literature on cooperative threat reduction as a study linking CTR to the wider context of the opportunities, challenges and constraints determining the nature of post-Cold War relations between the U.S. and Russia.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""List of Tables, Figures and Charts""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword ""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1. U.S.-Russian Relations after the Cold War: Confronting the Nuclear Threat""; ""1.2. Conceptual Framework""; ""1.3. U.S.-Russian Relations in the Contemporary International System""; ""2 U.S.-Russian Strategic Relations: The Role of Nuclear Weapons""; ""2.1. The Role of Nuclear Weapons in U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War""; ""2.2. U.S.-Russian Relations in the Post-Cold War Period""

""2.3. The Role of Nuclear Weapons in U.S.-Russian Strategic Relations""""2.4. Main Post-Cold War Arms Control Treaties""; ""2.5. The U.S. Nuclear Posture""; ""2.6. Russian Military Doctrine and Nuclear Weapons""; ""2.7. Command and Control in the Post-Cold War Era � the Danger of an Accidental Nuclear War""; ""2.8. The “Strategic Paradox�""; ""2.9. The Cooperative Threat Reduction Process in U.S.-Russian Relations""; ""3 The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Programme and the Evolution of the CTR Process""; ""3.1. Historical Background of the CTR Programme""

""3.2. The CTR Programme: Implementation""""3.2.1. Assistance for the Denuclearisation of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine; Elimination of the START-limited Systems and Infrastructure""; ""3.2.2. CTR Assistance to Russia""; ""3.3. Problems of Implementation""; ""3.4. The Overall Effectiveness""; ""3.5. The Evolution of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Process""; ""4 Decision-Making Processes and Cooperative Threat Reduction""; ""4.1. Russian Decision-Making""; ""4.1.1. Federal Agency of Atomic Energy (ROSATOM) (the former Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM)""

""4.1.2. The State Duma (the Lower Chamber of the Russian Parliament)""""4.1.3. The Ministry of Defence (MOD)""; ""4.1.4. State Committee for the Supervision of Nuclear and Radiation Safety (GAN) (Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor))""; ""4.1.5. The Federal Security Service (FSB)""; ""4.1.6. Nuclear Research Institutes and NGOs""; ""4.2. U.S. Decision-Making""; ""4.2.1. Congress""; ""4.2.2. The Department of Defence (DOD)""; ""4.2.3. The Department of Energy (DOE)""; ""4.2.4. The National Security Council (NSC)""

""4.2.6. The U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC)""""4.2.7. Nuclear Labs and NGOs""; ""4.3. Conclusion""; ""5 Preventing the Proliferation of Fissile Material: The Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Programme""; ""5.1. The Danger of Fissile Material Proliferation""; ""5.2. Safety and Security of Fissile Material at Russian Facilities""; ""5.3. Types of Threats""; ""5.4. Fissile Material Smuggling""; ""5.4.1. Smuggling Fissile Material: The Level of Risk""; ""5.4.2. Acknowledged Cases of Smuggling""; ""5.4.3. Potential Smugglers and Buyers of Fissile Material""

""5.5. Material Protection, Control and Accounting 1MPC&A) Programme""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783838257075

3838257073

Publisher Number:

9783838257075