U.S./Russia Conflict & Collaboration

This study examined the prospects of collaboration and conflict between the United States and Russia in the post Cold War environment. This introductory chapter presents the problem statement and the research methodology for the study.

The crumbling of the socalled Communist Empire in Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990 has led many political observers and analysts to proclaim that the international political environment has been transformed. These observers and analysts conclude that, as a consequence of this collapse, the international political environment has ceased to be one of a bipolar character, in which the United States and the Soviet Union were the principal players, and will soon assume either (1) a multipolar character, in which either (a) the United States and the Soviet Union will be but two of several major players, or (b) the United States, Japan, and the reunited Germany will be the major players, with a considerably less significant role for the Soviet Union, or a unipolar character in which the United States is the dominant world power.

There is little doubt that the international political order is changing, and that in the spring of 1994 it is significantly different from what it was in the fall of 1988. Only a superficial analysis, however, can conclude that this change is the result of the end of the Cold War in 1989. The change is a part of a process that began in earlyNovember 1982 when Leonid Brezhvev died, and

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mes, as well as employing aspects of economic theory in the analysis of regimes. Gilpin, however, generally addressed the question of regimes in broader terms than did Keohane. In this context, Keohane stated that "the liberal international arrangements for trade and international finance" could be interpreted "as responses to the need for policy coordination created by the fact of interdependence. These arrangements, which we will call 'international regimes,' contained rules, norms, principles and decision making procedures. Keohane's analysis was concerned primarily with the period stretching from the end of the Second World War to the mid1980s. Although he recognized the broad character of international relations during this period, he attributes the motivations of the central international actors during this period primarily to their competing economic interests. In this context, he stated that one "can view international political economy as the intersection of the substantive area studied by economics . . . with the process by which power is exercised that is central to politics. Whenever, in the economy, actors exert power over one another, the economy is political. This area of intersection can be contrasted wit

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