[PDF] Challenges Posed By Russia To United States National Security Interests eBook

Author : United States Congress House Committe
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781378839829

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Author : United States; Congress; House; Committee on National Security
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781330378571

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Excerpt from Challenges Posed by Russia to United States National Security Interests: Committee on National Security House of Representatives One Hundred Fourth Congress Second Session, Hearings Held June 13, 1996 The committee met, pursuant to call, at 9:30 a. m., in room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Floyd Spence (chairman of the committee) presiding. Opening Statement Of Hon. Floyd Spence, A Representative From South Carolina, Chairman, Committee On National Security The Chairman. The meeting will please be in order. This morning the committee continues its series of hearings on the nature of the post-cold-war world and the strategic challenges facing the United States. Today our focus will be on Russia, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," as Winston Churchill put it. Although Churchill was speaking of the Soviet Union, his words are still appropriate in describing post-Soviet Russia. On the eve of the Russian elections, we would do well to focus on the security challenges Russia will continue to pose to America - regardless of who wins this weekend. In recent years, the United States has tried to transform Russia from a former enemy into a friend, ally, even strategic partner. We have enjoyed some modest successes, generally when mutual interests were readily served. But lately, the prospects for partnership have dimmed. Russia is violently opposed to NATO expansion, to the point of raising the threat of renewed nuclear tensions. Boris Yeltsin has waged a bloody and bitter war in Chechnya, extending a pattern of Russian suppression, subversion, and intervention from the Caucasus through Central Asia. Russia has, since last November, been in violation of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, and is on the verge of getting relief from treaty limits to increase its military presence in those flank areas where New Independent States are seeking to chart a course independent of Moscow. Several months ago, just days after an apparently cordial meeting with President Clinton, Mr. Yeltsin visited Beijing to announce a Russian-Chinese "strategic partnership" - a partnership which the Russian Defense Minister subsequently described as essentially anti-Western. Hard-line nationalists and unreconstructed Communists have dominated press reports about Russian politics, and one Communist - Mr. Zyuganov, may replace Yeltsin as Russias next leader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : United States Congress House Security
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2019-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780267425242

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Excerpt from Challenges Posed by Russia to United States National Security Interests: Committee on National Security House of Representatives One Hundred Fourth Congress Second Session, Hearings Held June 13, 1996 In recent years, the United States has tried to transform Russia from a former enemy into a friend, ally, even strategic partner. We have enjoyed some modest successes, generally when mutual inter ests were readily served. But lately, the prospects for partnership have dimmed. Russia is violently opposed to nato expansion, to the point of raising the threat of renewed nuclear tensions. Boris Yeltsin has waged a bloody and bitter war in Chechnya, extending a pattern of Russian suppression, subversion, and intervention from the Caucasus through Central Asia. Russia has, since last November, been in vio lation of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, and is on the verge of getting relief from treaty limits to increase its military presence in those flank areas where New Independent States are seeking to chart a course independent of Moscow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Floyd D. Spence
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category :
ISBN : 0788170813

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Witness testimony and prepared statements presented in the June 1996 hearing before the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, examine post-Soviet Russia and its implications for U.S. national security. Principal witnesses include Clifford G. Gaddy, The Brookings Institute and author; Richard Pipes, former Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Affairs and Director of Russian Policy at the National Security Council and professor of history at Harvard Univ.; and Ambassador James R. Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence.

Author : James T. Clifford
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : National security
ISBN :

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Organized crime in Russia has a direct, negative impact on the national security interests of the United States. The U.S. national security interests in Russia include regional stability, development of a free market based economy and control of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These interests are best served by a viable, democratic government in Russia. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia began a movement toward democracy. However, the powerful forces of organized crime within Russia and its grip on the domestic economy, is impeding its progress. International solutions to this challenge include greater cooperation among western nations to stem the flow of illegal money and material out of Russia. For its part the United States is developing closer law enforcement ties with the Russian Ministry of Interior. The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an office in Moscow. Future efforts must be focused on the mutual development of criminal intelligence in order to identify, arrest, and successfully prosecute Russian organized crime figures. In addition the products, goods, and services which Russian organized crime provides to the Russian people must be produced and delivered through the legal Russian market.

Author : Richard Weitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1440847371

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This volume identifies the main drivers of the current Sino-Russian relationship, assesses whether-and under what conditions-China and Russia would cooperate more extensively and effectively against American interests, and recommends U.S. policies that could prevent such an outcome. Most experts argue that economic interdependence, nuclear weapons, and the U.S. contribution to maintaining the global commons mean that China and Russia will generally accept U.S. military superiority and U.S. political supremacy in managing global affairs. An agreement between these two powerful countries to work against the United States, however, would greatly increase its vulnerabilities. Relations between the governments of China and Russia with the U.S. have worsened in past years. Identifying the various pathways, events, and political, economic, and military drivers that could shape the dynamics of the China-Russia relationship is of critical importance to U.S. security. This book examines the sources, nuances, and manifestations of the ongoing Sino-Russian relationship in order to recommend strategy and policy that could work to U.S. advantage. Written by an author who traveled extensively in both countries in order to conduct research and expert interviews for the work, the book covers the latest developments to include the major changes in Chinese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping and ongoing relations with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Author : Henry Trofimenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429786085

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First published in 1999, this book analyses the national interests of Russia as thy are indicated by the current policies of the Russian government and formulated in public and not so public discussions in high echelons of government. The author not only sums up and critically reviews those interests in general, but gives detailed analysis of specific interests of Russia in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. A large chapter is devoted to the review of converging and diverging interests of the USA and Russia. The main value of the book is in its philosophical aspect. An outstanding Russian foreign policy expert, who for 20 years participated in inner debates on a high level on issues of Soviet foreign policy and was considered by US politicians and scholars to be one of the top experts in Moscow on the US foreign policy and military strategy, muses over the fate of Russia and its current foreign policy (and domestic) predicaments.

Author : Schear James a Flanagan Stephen J
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1612344844

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Since 2001, the United States has endured a tumultuous period, one dominated by the 9/11 attacks and all that has followed: the war on terrorism, the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, looming confrontations with known or suspected proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, and episodic explosions of mass violence in chronically unstable regions. In this second half of the decade, these and related strategic challenges will test the skill, tenacity, and imagination of the current and the next U.S. administration and the American public. How well these challenges are managed then, or mastered, will greatly influence whether future historians look back upon this decade as a dangerous passage toward a more peaceful, globally connected order or as a descending path into an ever more fragmented, violent world. This volume explores seven looming, as yet unmastered strategic challenges facing the United States. Each chapter tackles one of the following challenges: tackling global terrorism, stopping WMD proliferation, undertaking defense transformation, protecting the homeland, strengthening relations with allies and partners, engaging other major powers, and defusing conflicts in unstable regions. Each chapter takes a similar approach: defining the problem at hand (i.e., a short discussion of relevant trends); explicating current U.S. efforts to master the challenge (i.e., U.S. objectives, methods, degree of success or setbacks); and analyzing looming choices that U.S. policymakers will face in the next decade and, as appropriate, the consequences of alternative courses of action. Strategic Challenges capitalizes on the great regional and topical expertise of the INSS professional research staff to present an authoritative overview of the global strategic environment facing the United States.