Blank, Stephen,  1950- <br/><br/>
The NATO-Russia partnership :  a marriage of convenience or a troubled relationship? / 
Stephen J. Blank. 
 - [Carlisle Barracks, PA] :  Strategic Studies Institute,  [2006] 
 - x, 92 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - The U.S. and Russia, regional security issues and interests .
<br/><br/> "November 2006." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-92). 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Arms control treaties -- The values gap and its sources -- Russia and NATO -- Russo-NATO cooperation -- Peace operations and peacekeeping forces -- Naval issues -- NATO in the Baltic and CIS -- Recommendations -- Conclusions. 
<br/><br/> Four years after the NATO-Russia Council came into being, it represents a picture in ambivalence and incomplete realization of partnership. This monograph focuses on the Russian side of this growing estrangement. It finds the Russian roots of this ambivalence or alienation in the increasingly visible manifestations of an autocratic and neo-imperial Russian state and foreign and defense policy. These strong trends in Russian policy inhibit the formation of a genuine security partnership that can provide for Eurasian security in the face of multiple contemporary threats. Indeed, it is debatable whether Russia really wants a comprehensive partnership with NATO. The author examines Russia's perspectives in this relationship and this growing estrangement between the West and Russia, tracing it to trends in Russian domestic, defense, and foreign policies. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1584872594 9781584872597 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006470279 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Russia (Federation)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Security, International.<br/>NAVO.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rusland.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>U413.A66  / B638 2006