Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War

480 Pages·2003·1.84 MB·English

by  James M. Goldgeier

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U.S. Policy toward Russia
after the Cold War
James M. Goldgeier
Michael McFaul
Brookings Institution Press
Washington,D.C.
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Power and purpose:U.S.policy toward Russia after the Cold War/
James M.Goldgeier and Michael McFaul.
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1. United States—Foreign relations—Russia (Federation) 2. Russia
(Federation)—Foreign relations—United States.3. United
States—Foreign relations—1989- 4. United States—Officials and
employees—Interviews.5. Russia (Federation)—Officials and
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1 Power and Purpose 1
2 George H.W.Bush and Soviet Regime Change 18
3 Controlling the Nukes 41
4 Limited Assistance for Economic Reform 59
5 Bill Clinton’s Assistance Policy 87
6 Our Man in Moscow 120
7 Security Partners? 157
8 NATO Is a Four-Letter Word 183
9 Things Fall Apart:August 1998 211
10 Kosovo 247
11 Chechnya,Again 267
12 No Deals 287
13 George W.Bush and Russia 305
14 Lessons 330
Appendix: List of Interviews 367
Notes 377
Index 453
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Acknowledgments
O
ur first debt of gratitude goes to Richard Haass,former vice president
and director of Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings, and Michael
Armacost, former president of Brookings, who provided the initial backing
for this project.We are grateful to their successors,James Steinberg and Strobe
Talbott,for continuing this support.
The project depended heavily on the willingness of those interviewed to
speak with us and to be quoted in this book.These individuals are listed in the
appendix.
Participants who attended daylong manuscript review workshops at
Brookings and Stanford gave us invaluable advice. Andrew Bennett, Toby
Gati, Fiona Hill, George Kolt, Andrew Kuchins, Robert Legvold, Sarah
Mendelson, Bruce Parrott, Dennis Ross, Stephen Sestanovich, and James
Steinberg attended at Brookings.Herb Abrams,David Bernstein,Coit Blacker,
John Dunlop,Lynn Eden,James Fearon,David Holloway,Gail Lapidus,Alex
Montgomery, Richard Morningstar, Scott Sagan, Todd Sechser, and Steve
Stedman attended the workshop at Stanford. In addition, Mikhail Alexeev,
Ashton Carter, Derek Chollet, Adam Elstein, Timothy Frye, Joel Hellman,
Pavel Khokhryakov, Eugene Rumer, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Alex
Sokolowski,and Andrew Weiss provided comments on various draft chapters,
and Michael McFaul’s students at Stanford read and commented on the entire
book. The three anonymous reviewers for the Brookings Press provided
extremely detailed reports, and James Lindsay gave the manuscript a thor-
ough, final review for Brookings. We are particularly grateful to the late
Andrew Carpendale, who helped us get the project started and who was
instrumental in explaining issues in American foreign policy associated with
the collapse ofthe Soviet Union.
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The National Security Archive at George Washington University filed the
Freedom of Information Act requests and collected the documents received.
The editors ofCurrent Historyprovided input into an earlier version ofchap-
ter 13, which appeared in their journal in October 2002. Eric Bahn, Rachel
Dubin, Jeanette Leeney, Catherine Nielsen, Mistelle Olsen, Angela Sheets,
Kathryn Dornbush, Tatyana Krasnopevtseva, Caroline McGregor, Laura
Bailey,and Elina Treyger provided research assistance,and Toula Papanicolas
provided excellent administrative support. The Institute for European,
Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University provided sup-
port for James Goldgeier, and the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace,the Earhart Foundation,and the Hoover Institution supported Michael
McFaul.
Brookings Foreign Policy staff Monique Principi, Tara Miller, Bethany
Hase, and Stacy Rosenberg helped in innumerable ways, and Becky Clark,
Janet Walker, and Theresa Walker at the Brookings Press helped bring the
project to fruition. Carlotta Ribar proofread the book, and Robert Elwood
prepared the index.
This book would not have been possible without the extraordinary support
ofour families,and we are most grateful to them.
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