Russia's Role in the Emerging Eurasian Security Environment
Russian foreign policy has taken an interesting turn during the administration of President Vladimir Putin. Following the proposed deployment of a strategic ballistic missile defense system in Central Europe, Mr. Putin threatened withdrawal from both the Conventional Forces Europe (CFE) and Intermed...
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ftdtic:ADA539971 2023-05-15T15:11:47+02:00 Russia's Role in the Emerging Eurasian Security Environment Sacko, David INST FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES US AIR FORCE ACADEMY CO 2008 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA539971 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA539971 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA539971 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. DTIC Government and Political Science *RUSSIA *FOREIGN POLICY GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN) MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN) SECURITY HISTORY GUIDED MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS DEFENSE INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COOPERATION FINANCE ECONOMICS EURASIA UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CFE(CONVENTIONAL FORCES EUROPE) INF(INTERMEDIATE NUCLEAR FORCES) HOSTILE ACTS DOMESTIC POLITICS PUTIN VLADIMIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE CLANS Text 2008 ftdtic 2016-02-23T06:55:36Z Russian foreign policy has taken an interesting turn during the administration of President Vladimir Putin. Following the proposed deployment of a strategic ballistic missile defense system in Central Europe, Mr. Putin threatened withdrawal from both the Conventional Forces Europe (CFE) and Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in addition to retargeting nuclear missiles to Poland and the United States. Beyond rhetoric, concrete acts of Russian aggression include attempting to claim resource rich elements of the Arctic region, resuming bomber patrols, and invading Georgian airspace culminating in the invasion of Georgia itself. While these seemingly hostile acts are occurring, a great deal of cooperation exists between the United States and Russia in the US-led global war on terrorism. On other fronts, such as relations with the Chinese and Iranian nuclear ambitions, Russian policies seem much more ambivalent and even contradictory What might possibly explain this seemingly contradictory series of policies? Tip O'Neill says, "All politics is (are) local." It is the thesis of this project that Russian foreign policy is best understood through an understanding of Russian domestic politics and the dominant interests that supports Mr. Putin's policies: the military, the oligarchs, the Russian popular nationalist imperative and Putin's political machine itself. This paper will begin with an overview of basic Russian strategic thinking, but will probe more into the construction of Russian ideas and how those ideas have been made manifest within the Russian political system. Text Arctic Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database Arctic |
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Government and Political Science *RUSSIA *FOREIGN POLICY GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN) MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN) SECURITY HISTORY GUIDED MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS DEFENSE INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COOPERATION FINANCE ECONOMICS EURASIA UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CFE(CONVENTIONAL FORCES EUROPE) INF(INTERMEDIATE NUCLEAR FORCES) HOSTILE ACTS DOMESTIC POLITICS PUTIN VLADIMIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE CLANS |
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Government and Political Science *RUSSIA *FOREIGN POLICY GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN) MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN) SECURITY HISTORY GUIDED MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS DEFENSE INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COOPERATION FINANCE ECONOMICS EURASIA UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CFE(CONVENTIONAL FORCES EUROPE) INF(INTERMEDIATE NUCLEAR FORCES) HOSTILE ACTS DOMESTIC POLITICS PUTIN VLADIMIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE CLANS Sacko, David Russia's Role in the Emerging Eurasian Security Environment |
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Government and Political Science *RUSSIA *FOREIGN POLICY GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN) MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN) SECURITY HISTORY GUIDED MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS DEFENSE INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COOPERATION FINANCE ECONOMICS EURASIA UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CFE(CONVENTIONAL FORCES EUROPE) INF(INTERMEDIATE NUCLEAR FORCES) HOSTILE ACTS DOMESTIC POLITICS PUTIN VLADIMIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE CLANS |
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Russian foreign policy has taken an interesting turn during the administration of President Vladimir Putin. Following the proposed deployment of a strategic ballistic missile defense system in Central Europe, Mr. Putin threatened withdrawal from both the Conventional Forces Europe (CFE) and Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in addition to retargeting nuclear missiles to Poland and the United States. Beyond rhetoric, concrete acts of Russian aggression include attempting to claim resource rich elements of the Arctic region, resuming bomber patrols, and invading Georgian airspace culminating in the invasion of Georgia itself. While these seemingly hostile acts are occurring, a great deal of cooperation exists between the United States and Russia in the US-led global war on terrorism. On other fronts, such as relations with the Chinese and Iranian nuclear ambitions, Russian policies seem much more ambivalent and even contradictory What might possibly explain this seemingly contradictory series of policies? Tip O'Neill says, "All politics is (are) local." It is the thesis of this project that Russian foreign policy is best understood through an understanding of Russian domestic politics and the dominant interests that supports Mr. Putin's policies: the military, the oligarchs, the Russian popular nationalist imperative and Putin's political machine itself. This paper will begin with an overview of basic Russian strategic thinking, but will probe more into the construction of Russian ideas and how those ideas have been made manifest within the Russian political system. |
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