NATO and Russia: A Perpetual New Beginning

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1. Among the most perceptive analyses of Russian foreign policy have been Andrei Tsygankov, Bobo Lo and Dimitri Trenin; See Andrei Tsygankov, Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, Lanham, MD, Rowan and Littlefield, 2nd edition, 2010;
2. Bobo Lo, Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy, New York, Wiley, John & Sons, 2003;
3. Dimitri Trenin, Getting Russia Right, Washington, Carnegie Foundation, 2007. Andres Fogh Rasmussen, “A New Beginning for NATO and Russia”, Project Syndicate, 20 October 2010.
4. David Yost, NATO Transformed: The Alliance’s New Roles in International Security, Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998, p. 131. An excellent recent analysis of NATO and its role in the second decade of the 21st century can be found in Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca R. Moore (eds.), NATO: In Search of a Vision, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2010. As expressed in the North Atlantic Treaty, Article 5 reads “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”. Article 2 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that “the Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded […].” Yost, NATO Transformed, p. 269; Yost’s study, along with Gülnur Aybet’s, A European Security Architecture after the Cold War, New York, St Martin’s Press, 2000, remain the best studies of the process of restructuring of NATO and its mission. Madeleine Albright, “The Right Balance will Secure NATO’s Future”, The Financial Times, 7 December 1998. For a discussion of the split in US relations with some of its European allies see Roger E. Kanet, “The Bush Revolution in U.S. Security Policy”, in Roger E. Kanet (ed.), The New Security Environment: The Impact on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate Publishing, 2005, pp. 11-29. Stephen Larrabee, “Russia, Ukraine, Central Europe: The Return of Geopolitics”, Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2010), p. 34; Sandra Fernandes and Licínia Simão, “Competing for Eurasia: Russian and European Union Perspectives”, in Roger E. Kanet and Maria Raquel Freire (eds.), Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia. The Return of the Great Game, Houndmills, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 115