Neorealism and Contemporary US-Russian Military Competition in the Post-Soviet Space
Journal: Vojenské rozhledy
Year: 2017

In the light of neorealist theory, the Eastern enlargement of NATO satisfies basic feature of expansion: 9 former countries of the Warsaw Pact become members of NATO. USA as a Sea power reinforced its superiority at the detriment of the RF as a continental power. The annexation of Crimea, as a Russian answer, had intensified security fears of post -Soviet countries and of Poland and enlarged the space for external balancing of the USA. Author warns that a confrontational structure had become typ