The Rise and Fall of Cooperative Arms Control in Europe

Dr. Ulrich Kühn

doi:10.5771/9783748903239

Summary

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, America and Russia have again returned to conflict. But this renewed confrontation did not come out of the blue. Rather, it was preceded by a long period of stagnation and a final crisis in the realm of arms control. In particular, the agreements of cooperative arms control in Europe eroded after the turn of the millennium. Why did that neatly established network of security agreements collapse? In this volume, Ulrich Kühn traces the rise and fall of cooperative arms control in Europe from the early Helsinki days to the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 2014. Applying a multi-theory approach in order to assess the foreign and security policies of the United States and Russia, the author not only answers who is to blame for the sorry state of arms control, but he also uncovers a regime complex that has so far remained unknown and that spans across various organisations and institutions.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-6207-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-0323-9
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden
Volume: 224
Language: English
Pages: 414
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 19
Prologue No access Pages 20 - 22
1. Focus of the Book No access
2. Why Focus on Cooperative Arms Control in Europe? No access
3. 1. Fuzzy Terminology No access
  2. Theoretical References without Evidence No access
  3. Incomplete Theoretical Research No access
4. 1. Cooperative Security No access
  2. Arms Control No access
  3. Europe No access
  4. Cooperative Arms Control in Europe No access
  5. Institutions and Regimes No access
5. 1. Realism No access
  2. Regime Theory No access
  3. Security Communities, the English School, and Constructivist Analyses No access
6. 1. A Realist Model of International Cooperation No access
  2. First Abductive Test No access
  3. Second Abductive Test No access
  4. Comparison with Other Theories No access
1. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. States’ Relative-Gains Concern No access
  2. The Consequences of States’ Relative-Gains Concern No access
  3. States’ Rationality to Cheat No access
  4. The Consequences of States’ Rationality to Cheat No access
3. 1. Clarifying Realist Means and Ends No access
  2. Capabilities No access
  3. Interests No access
  4. Expectations No access
  5. Strategies No access
  6. Evaluation of Gains No access
4. Conclusions No access
1. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. Analysis of Cooperation No access
3. 1. Analysis of Cooperation No access
4. 1. Analysis of Cooperation No access
5. 1. Analysis of Cooperation No access
6. 1. Analysis of Cooperation No access
7. 1. Analysis of Policies No access
8. 1. Capabilities No access
  2. Interests No access
  3. Expectations No access
  4. Strategies No access
  5. Evaluation of Gains No access
  6. Institutionalization No access
  7. Decay No access
1. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. Definitions of Regimes No access
  2. Security Regimes No access
  3. Regime Complexes No access
3. 1. Neoliberal Approaches No access
  2. Constructivist Approaches No access
4. 1. Signs of Decay No access
  2. Reasons for Decay No access
  3. Complexity Decay No access
5. 1. Five Dragons No access
  2. Where the Dragons Came From No access
6. 1. Definitions of Regimes and the Empirical Evidence No access
  2. Regime Creation and Maintenance and the Empirical Evidence No access
  3. Regime Decay and the Empirical Evidence No access
7. Conclusions No access
1. Introductory Remarks No access
2. Agreements, Period 1975-1989 No access
3. Agreements, Period 1990-1994 No access
4. Agreements, Period 1995-1999 No access
5. Agreements, Period 2000-2014 No access
6. Preliminary Assessment of the Four Periods, 1975-2014 No access
1. Assessment I: Successful Multi-Regime Creation No access
2. Assessment II: Densification to Complexity No access
3. Assessment III: A Complex in Decay No access
4. Conclusions No access
1. Introductory Remarks No access
2. Statements, Period 1990-1994 No access
3. Statements, Period 1995-1999 No access
4. Statements, Period 2000-2008 No access
5. Statements, Period 2009-2011 No access
6. Statements, Period 2012-2014 No access
7. Assessment of the Second Abductive Test’s Results No access
8. Conclusions No access
1. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. Essentials of Security Communities No access
  2. Analysis and Application No access
3. 1. Essentials of the English School No access
  2. Analysis and Application No access
4. 1. Norm Dynamics: Essentials of Constructivist Analyses No access
  2. Analysis and Application No access
5. Conclusions No access
1. 1. The Regime Complex No access
  2. Explaining Decay No access
2. 1. Theoretical Conclusions No access
  2. Political Conclusions No access
Epilogue No access Pages 363 - 365
Annex I: Data Input (Capabilities) No access Pages 366 - 377
Annex II: List of Agreements Reviewed No access Pages 378 - 379
Annex III: List of Statements Reviewed No access Pages 380 - 382
Annex IV: References No access Pages 383 - 414