The Limited Partnership: Building a Russian-US Security Community(SIPRI Monographs)

This book presents a detailed assessment of the conditions for security relations between Washington and Moscow in the post-cold war era, focusing on the scope for future co-operative management of common security. Three main areas provide the context for a thematically and theoretically varied discussion: the security and foreign policy implications of the transition from the Soviet to a Russian/Commonwealth regime; military power and international stability after the cold war; and the political, military, and technological requirements for a new security relationship.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction: the case for a Russian-US security community, Fred Charles Ikle. Part 2 Regime transition - from Cold War to co-operative security: history accelerates - the diplomacy of co-operation and fragmentation, William W. Newmann; Moscow's nationalities problem - the collapse of empire and the challenges ahead, Daria Fane; a national security policy for Russia, Sergey Rogov; the making of a Russian foreign policy, Mikhail Bezrukov; issues and images - Washington and Moscow in great power politics, David Kaiser. Part 3 Military power and international stability: theatre forces in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Edward Atkeson; US theatre forces in the year 2000, Edward Atkeson; high technology after the Cold War, Benoit Morl; the metastable peace - a catastrophe theory model of US-Russian relations, Irving Lachow. Part 4 Building a new security relationship: building a Eurasian-Atlantic security community - co-operative management of the military transition, William W. Newmann and Judyth L. Twigg; defence planning - the potential for transparency and co-operation, Judyth L. Twigg; containing destabilizing military techologies, James Macintosh; some limits on co-operation and transparency operational security and the use of force, William W. Newmann.

Review :
'Immensely valuable' John Baylis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, International Affiars, Vol. 70, No. 1, January 1994 `useful in providing a wealth of information about aspects of security ... valuable for their intelligent treatment of issues and problems which are likely to be relevant for many years to come ... contains a great deal which is informative and thought-provoking' Intelligence and National Security `the issues raised remain pertinent to the debate. It is an important book, in its outline of the possible grounds which exist for security cooperation, its recognition that these should not be ignored, and in its recognition that for the forseeable future there are nevertheless clear limitations to what can be achieved' Millennium