Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between the Use of Power Resources in U.S. Policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989-2008
According to realist premises, the United States has an interest in remaining the world's only superpower, thus creating the need to manage and maintain unipolarity. The pursuit of this grand strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to individual states. Poland, Ukra...
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La Vergne :
Ibidem Press
2017.
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; I Introduction; I.1 The background; I.1.1 Preserving the unipolar moment; I.1.2 On the ground: the U.S. in Central and Eastern Europe; I.2 Empirical objectives; II The theoretical framework and methodology; II. 1 Introduction and research questions; II. 1.1 Neoclassical realism: an introduction; II. 1.2 Elite perceptions: of more than just the system?; II. 2 Non-friends, friends and undecided states; II. 2.1 Non-friends; II. 2.2 Friends; II. 2.3 Concluding remarks: undecided states; II. 3 Two types of power resources and foreign policy tools.
- II. 3.1 Power in political realismII. 3.2 Positive and negative power: the relevance of base values; II. 3.3 Negative power and its bases; II. 3.4 Positive power and its bases; II. 3.5 Power resources and foreign policy tools; II. 4 Linking states' friend / non-friend / undecided status to power; II. 5 Concluding remarks on the theoretical framework; II. 6 Methodological considerations; II. 6.1 The cases; II. 6.2 Sources; II. 6.3 Research design: Comparative case studies; II. 6.4 Three steps in addressing the sources; III U.S. Foreign Policies Towards Poland; III. 1 Introduction.
- III. 2 Laying the foundations: the U.S. and SolidarnoÅ#x9B;Ä#x87;III. 2.1 Accompanying Poland to de facto independence 1989â#x80;#x93;1991; III. 2.2 Foreign Policy Tools in SolidarnoÅ#x9B;Ä#x87;-times; III. 3 An emerging new best friend in Europe: the second Gulf War and NATO enlargement; III. 3.1 Euro-Atlantic integration or: Overcoming Yalta; III. 3.2 Foreign policy tools 1991 to 2000; III. 4 The heydays and their aftermath: 2001 onwards; III. 4.1 State Tourism: Bush, KwaÅ#x9B;niewski and the Iraq war; III. 4.2 Foreign policy tools 2001 to 2005; III. 5 After KwaÅ#x9B;niewski: 2005 onwards; III. 5.1 The double KaczyÅ#x84;ski era.
- III. 5.2 Donald Tusk, the conclusion of the Missile Defence Agreementâ#x80;#x94;and still no visa waiver programmeIII. 5.3 Foreign policy tools after KwaÅ#x9B;niewski; III. 6 Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Poland 1989â#x80;#x93;2008; IV U.S. Foreign Policies Towards Ukraine; IV. 1 Introduction: America's recognition of Ukraine's independence; IV. 2 The early years: Moscow-centrism and a focus on nuclear non-proliferation 1991 to 1994; IV. 2.1 Solving the nuclear question; IV. 2.2 The Lisbon Protocol and Ukraine's accession to the NPT as a nuclear-free state.
- IV. 2.3 Foreign Policy Tools in solving the nuclear questionIV. 3 Conventional non-proliferation: Ukraine's accession to the MTCR, Bushehr and the Satellite Deal 1994 to 1998; IV. 3.1 Getting Ukraine to join the MTCR; IV. 3.2 The Policy of issue linkage: non-proliferation, nuclear power plants and satellites; IV. 3.3 Foreign Policy Tools in making Ukraine join the MTCR; IV. 4 Euro-Atlantic integration: Ukraine in its wider context 1994 to 2004; IV. 4.1 The U.S.-Ukrainian honeymoon: broadening relations; IV. 4.2 Setbacks and frustration.
