Regional Conflicts The Challenge to US--Russian Co-operation

by Goodby, James E.

• ISBN13: 9780198291718
• ISBN10: 019829171X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-07
• Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Summary

This is the second volume of a two-part study on international issues in the post cold-war era. Ten authors consider regional conflicts, how relations among the great powers could be affected by such conflicts and how co-operation among the leading nations, especially Russia and the UnitedStates, might influence the course of regional strife. The end of the cold war closed one chapter in history - the global struggle between the USA and USSR. It has not brought an end to regional conflicts. This volume analyses three broad categories of regional conflicts: * Countries in the developing world where US and Russian interests are more or less equally engaged * Countries of special interest to one or more of the great powers, and * Countries where there is no overriding Russian or US national security interest. The challenge to US-Russian co-operation is examined under the major headings of preventive diplomacy in an era of high technology, dilemmas of US-Russian security co-operation and international security organizations as instruments for great power co-operation.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acronyms
Introductory remarks	p. 3
The potential for US-Russian security co-operation in the developing world	p. 13
The elements of a North-South security system	p. 34
Containing the introduction of destabilizing military technologies: the confidence-building approach	p. 47
Controlling the high-technology militarization of the developing world	p. 75
Global co-operation and regional conflict: problems in co-ordinating the US and Russian security agendas	p. 95
Post-independence decolonization: a framework for analysing Russia's relations with neighhouring states	p. 119
Intervention in the 'new world order': US use of force in Latin America and the Persian Gulf	p. 132
Conflict in Europe: the case of Yugoslavia	p. 157
The utility of international organizations for collective action in regional conflicts	p. 191
About the authors	p. 242
Index	p. 244
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