The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

Russian Foreign and Security Policy, from the End of the USSR to the War in Ukraine
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-133200-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

Reihe: ISSN

This work examines the CFE Treaty as a factor in Russia’s foreign and security policy. Moscow showed amazing persistence in their relationship with the "cornerstone of European security." Their approach to the treaty was a genuine attempt to shape the security environment in Europe and the former USSR. The treaty also enabled the dismantling of large conventional forces as they returned from Eastern Europe and transitioned into the armies of the newly independent states of the former USSR. The CFE Treaty, though, proved ineffective at constraining the enlargement of NATO. Simultaneously, Moscow’s foreign and security policy evolved from one that focused on the domestic development of the country to that of a more confident state reasserting itself as a great power. Drawing extensively on primary sources and analyses by Russian authors, this book employs two historical narratives, case studies, and a conceptual framework to show that while Moscow remained engaged with the CFE Treaty, undesired effects on Russia’s national interests gradually accrued at the expense of desired ones, leading Vladimir Putin to withdraw Russia from the treaty as an act of de-coupling from the "collective West." This book is relevant to scholars and policymakers who want to understand Russia’s approach to arms control as an element of military security.

Zielgruppe

Wissenschaftler/-innen mit den Schwerpunkten Militärgeschichte so / Scholars of military history, Russian foreign and security policy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilcox, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Mark R. Wilcox, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

Mark R. Wilcox, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.