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" Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin: Soviet-Russian relations with the United States from 1990 through the fall of 2008: A strategic analysis "
Terry W. Simmons R. Kanet

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54741
Doc. No	:	TL24695
Call number	:	‭3341054‬
Main Entry	:	Terry W. Simmons
Title & Author	:	Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin: Soviet-Russian relations with the United States from 1990 through the fall of 2008: A strategic analysis\ Terry W. Simmons
College	:	University of Miami
Date	:	2008
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2008
Page No	:	331
Abstract	:	Cold War Soviet foreign policy was driven by a strategic competition. A competition-détente cycle based on the superpower rivalry between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including the Warsaw Pact dependencies, and the United States of America and its respective alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) existed for over forty-five years. Following the dismantling of the Warsaw Pact and the implosion of the USSR, remnant Soviet and subsequent Russian foreign policy, changed dramatically. Though some fragmentary Soviet style vertical controls of the foreign policy of the transitional Gorbachev years and the first years of Yeltsin's first administration were recognizable, their respective foreign relations operated on the defensive realities of a splintered empire in every conceivable manner. This dissertation will track and analyze each president's foreign policy goals within the dependent variables of social, economic and political influences of post Cold War realities. In an absolute sense, each president formulated Russian foreign policy based on domestic considerations. This fact constitutes the independent variable in this analysis. From the bellicosity of the Cold War through the opposition of Russia to America's unilateralist approach to the second Iraqi war, Russia attempted to return as a major player in international relations as a whole and as an interlocutor with the United States in a strategic sense. This engagement has produced the gambit of political polemics, from the strident Soviet "launch on warning" correlation of forces fighting doctrine to the interactive and more personal political good will venue between Bush and Putin. It is this "push-pull" political history that prompts the primary research question: Is the present Russian strategic relationship with the post 9.11 United States the beginning of a new and unique post Cold War international relationship or is it simply a continuation of the familiar confrontation-détente cycle historically endemic to Russian-American relations? Has the American occupation of Iraq, a perennial Russian client state, derailed the post 9.11 accommodation between the two countries?
Subject	:	Social sciences; Russian-American relations; Russia--Post 1990; Soviet-Russian transition; American foreign policy; Russian foreign policy; Gorbachev to Putin; Gorbachev, Mikhail; Yeltsin, Boris; Putin, Vladimir; Russia; Soviet Union; Foreign policy; Political science; International law; Russian history; 0724:Russian history; 0615:Political science; 0616:International law
Added Entry	:	R. Kanet
Added Entry	:	University of Miami