Arms control and proliferation challenges to the reset policy
By: Stephen J. Blank
Contributors: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Series: Strategic Studies Institute monograph; SSI monograph
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Carlisle, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781584875086
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; Arms control; Government policy; Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms; Nuclear nonproliferation; Disarmament; Foreign relations
Description: The current U.S. reset policy with Russia involves efforts to blaze a path of mutual cooperation on arms control and proliferation. In arms control, we see determined administration attempts to promote greater nuclear reductions in the direction of nuclear zero, including reductions in tactical nuclear weapons. This necessarily leads Moscow to raise issues of missile defense in Europe that it vehemently opposes. This monograph analyzes Russia's position on these arms control issues and examines the chances for the United States to achieve its arms control goals in the foreseeable future. It also looks at the Russian position with regard to the main nonproliferation issues of Iran and North Korea, what the implications of these positions are for the achievement of U.S. policy goals, and what the United States might do with regard to Russia to advance those goals in a dynamic international environment.
Notes: "November 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-117).

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Table of contents: title: Summary; title: Introduction; title: Russia's American obsession; title: Regional security in Eurasia  in Russian thinking; title: Russia's force modernization and positions on the new nuclear agenda; title: Russian perceptions of the new treaty; title: Proliferation; title: Threats to Russia; title: Policy recommendations.