Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War

Celeste A. Wallander

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Mortal Friends, Best Enemies

German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War

Celeste A. Wallander

In the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717376

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Several hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive...

Author / Editor information

Celeste A. Wallander is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University and the editor of The Sources of Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War.

Reviews

Richard Anderson:

Relying mainly on interviews with senior politicians and foreign and defense officials in Germany and Russia, Wallander also takes advantage of the opportunity to assemble the public record of the range of issues in German-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War. The reader will find concise, informative presentations of the following: withdrawal of Russian forces from the former East Germany, renegotiation of the CFE to accommodate Russian demands for larger forces in the troubled North Caucasus, Russia's relations with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, problems of migration with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, problems of migration into both countries, NATO enlargement, international aspects of Russian economic and financial reform, and (all too briefly) Russian and German policy toward the breakup of Yugoslavia....Wallander has written a fine book.

Recommended for international and security relations collections in larger public and academic libraries.

William C. Wohlforth, author of The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War:

Celeste Wallander tackles one of the central theoretical issues in international relations scholarship in the context of one of the most important inter-state strategic relationships in world politics today. Her findings are valuable for both theory and policy, and she is able to generate potentially fruitful suggestions for further research. Mortal Friends, Best Enemies is a study to which many disparate research and policy communities will have to pay heed.

Jeffrey T. Checkel, Universitetet i Oslo:

Celeste Wallander has written an excellent book, one that will appeal to Europeanists, post-Soviet scholars, and especially theorists of international relations... The issue is no longer whether institutions matter (we know they do) but how they have effects. Do they constrain state strategies or constitute core state properties? Wallander's book should be a model for both rationalists and constructivists as they debate these issues in the years ahead.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Balance and Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. An Institutional Theory of Security Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. Intentions, Power, and Uncertainty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. Balances and Troop Withdrawals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. Balances and Military Forces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Threats, Risks, and Conflicts in Europe and the Former Soviet Union Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
7. Russian Internal Control and Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
8. Balancing Acts: Power, Interests, and Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Appendix: Interviews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 2 tables, 1 map, 3 drawings
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; History; Europe

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Published: May 31, 2018
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