Geopolitics and Neo-containment, as well as Common Security: Russian Views of Proliferation

A premise of U.S.-Russian security cooperation is that the two countries define security threats and the means to combat them in complementary, if perhaps not identical, ways. Cooperation requires some scope for common interests on which to base collaborative action. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union rarely had common views on security threats: nuclear nonproliferation was one of the very few areas of substantially common definitions of the problem which led to serious security cooperation. […]

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