Striving for Military Stability in Europe: Negotiation, Implementation and Adaptation of the CFE Treaty [Paperback]

Preface Acknowledgements Acronyms Part I. Background to the formal CFE negotiation  1. Arms Control as a Barometer of European Politics  2. Negotiating the CFE mandate  Part II. Negotiating the treaty and assessing its impact  3. Formal Negotiations: March 1989  November 1990  4. German Singularity, Nuclear Modernisation and the CFE1A Agreement on Personnel  Part III. Ratification problems  5. Resolving the Discrepancies in Soviet Data, 199091  6. The Dissolution of the USSR, 199192  Part IV. Implementation  7. Implementation of the CFE Treaty: The Cup Half Full  8. Implementation: the cup half emptynon-compliance
with Article V  Part V. The need for treaty revisions  9. Treaty revisions and NATO enlargement: the Flank Agreement  10. Adapting the CFE Treaty to post-cold war Europe, 1997-1999  11. Whither the Adapted CFE Treaty under President Putin?  12. Conclusion  Appendices  Index

This new book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, and focuses on the negotiation, implementation and adaptation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty.It shows that arms control agreements reflect rather than affect relations between parties and how the CFE Treaty codified parity between NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) in November 1990. It also shows how the CFE Treaty reflected the status quo at the end of the cold war, but the benefits were short lived, at least for Russia. Although still widely viewed in the west as the cornerstone of security and stability in post-Cold War Europe, from the Russian perspective the treaty was soon overtaken bl#.