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Informationen zum Autor Michael Slobodchikoff has a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Language from Georgetown University, where he majored in Russian and International Relations, an M.B.A. degree in International Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona. He is currently working as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Arizona, where he is teaching courses on Russian foreign policy. His interest in Russia developed early, and led to extensive travel in Russia and the former Soviet Union. His first trip to the Soviet Union was in 1990, where he witnessed the devolution of the Soviet State, and he made several trips to Russia and the former Soviet states in subsequent years. He saw how Russian foreign policy evolved in the post Soviet years, and this ignited a desire to systematically study the evolution of Russian foreign policy in the post Soviet period. Klappentext Power inequalities and mistrust have characterized many interstate relationships. Yet most international relations theories do not take into account power and mistrust when explaining cooperation. While some scholars argue that power relations inhibit cooperation between states, other scholars expect interstate cooperation regardless of the power relations and level of trust. Strategic Cooperation: Overcoming the Barriers of Global Anarchy argues that although states benefit from cooperation, they are also wary of the power relations between states, making cooperation difficult. Successful and cooperative bilateral relationships are formed between strong and weak states that are power asymmetric and have mistrust of one another, but they are built in such as way as to overcome the problem of power asymmetry and mistrust. This book answers how and why states that are in power asymmetry and have mistrust of one another are able to build a cooperative bilateral relationship. It argues that states forge a relationship due to strategic needs such as economic or security needs. Slobodchikoff has developed a database composed of the whole population of bilateral treaties between Russia and each of the former Soviet republics, and examines all of these bilateral relationships. He finds that Russia indeed forged relationships with the former republics based on its strategic interests. However, despite Russia's strategic interests, it had to build a bilateral relationship that would address the issues of mistrust and power asymmetry between the states. To achieve this, Russia and the former Soviet republics created treaty networks, which served to legitimize as well as legalize the independent status of each of the former republics while also increasing the cost to Russia of violating any of the treaties. This book argues that strong treaty networks account for a more cooperative relationship between states, allowing both states to cooperate by alleviating the problems of mistrust and power asymmetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures and TablesPrefaceChapter 1: Impediments to CooperationChapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to CooperationChapter 3: Soviet-Finnish RelationsChapter 4: State Motivations for CooperationChapter 5: Treaty NetworksChapter 6: The Necessity of CooperationChapter 7: Implications of Treaty NetworksBibliography...
