The US-Russia relations and the Russian strategic defense policy: getting beyond the cold war logic

Dmitry Suslov ()
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Abstract: The contemporary Russian military-industrial complex to a great extent still remains a shortened and shrinking copy of the old Soviet military machine, which is less and less capable of defending Russia from the real threats and challenges and stimulates ineffective spending of financial resources. The reason is that the logic of the Russian defense policy, which determines structure of the military-industrial complex, did not change since the Cold War. This logic is strategic deterrence of the US. Today more factors objectively unite Russia and the US in the world rather than separates them. However, Moscow is still committed to maintaining a parity (or at least an illusion of parity) with the US in the strategic nuclear sphere and regards it as a criteria for its military security and maintenance of a great power status.

Keywords: Nuclear weapons; Strategic missiles; intercontinental ballistic missiles; missile defense; arms control; defense policy; armaments; US-Russia relations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: International Relations / IR, September 2012, pages 1-24

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