By Martin Smith

This ebook deals the 1st finished research of the advance of kin among Russia and NATO considering that 1991.

Since the re-emergence of Russia as an self reliant nation in December 1991, debates and controversies surrounding its evolving relatives with NATO were a admired characteristic of the ecu protection scene. this can be the 1st designated and accomplished book-length research of Russia-NATO kinfolk, overlaying the years 1991-2005. This new quantity investigates the character and substance of the 'partnership' kin that experience built among Russia and NATO because the finish of the chilly conflict. It appears on the influence that the Kosovo drawback, September eleventh, the Iraq struggle and the production of NATO-Russia Council have in this advanced courting. the writer concludes that Russia and NATO have, to date, constructed a practical partnership, yet person who may possibly in all probability become a extra major strategic partnership.

This publication will entice scholars and students of diplomacy, ecu Politics and eu safeguard.

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36 In the early years of the new Russia’s life, Andrei Kozyrev, its first Foreign Minister, generally preferred to use the term ‘normal great power’. 37 In the mid 1990s, amidst indications of cooling Dramatis Personae 37 relations between Russia and the United States, the term ‘superpower’ crept back into usage on occasion, even amongst relatively liberal members of the Russian elite, such as Kozyrev himself. In an article published in Izvestia in March 1994, for example, the then Foreign Minister wrote that ‘Russia .

In addition, they proved willing to contribute to NATO-led peace support operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Since the NATO enlargement process got underway, however, and most especially since the second enlargement round, which entailed seven new members joining at the same time during 2004, the neutrals have increasingly been left as the most significant group of non-NATO member states within the PfP. 10 Peace support NATO and its member states were effectively propelled into a largely unplanned role in peace support and related operations by the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, in particular the civil war in Bosnia, in the early 1990s.

34 It remains unclear whether such a rosy scenario, from NATO’s perspective, is as yet in the process of being realised. Early in 2005, there was a burst of controversy following a speech delivered in the name of Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor. In his text, Schröder claimed that NATO was ‘no longer the primary venue where transatlantic partners discuss and coordinate strategies’. This was not a call for the abolition of NATO, as Schröder’s text made clear. He argued that ‘the admission of new members is proof that NATO continues to be attractive’ and, further, that ‘NATO’s presence in Afghanistan has highlighted how helpful its military organization can be even in distant crises’.

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