Security Cooperation between Russia and Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Deborah Sanders

   Pages 1-3

3. Security Co-operation: A Framework for Analysis

   • Deborah Sanders

   Pages 5-21

4. Tactical Nuclear Weapons

   • Deborah Sanders

   Pages 23-52

5. Strategic Nuclear Weapons

   • Deborah Sanders

   Pages 53-97

6. The Black Sea Fleet

   • Deborah Sanders

   Pages 99-141

7. Conclusion

   • Deborah Sanders

   Pages 143-152

8. Back Matter

   Pages 153-200

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Security cooperation between states remains elusive. Using a fascinating case study with wide implications for European security and stability, the division of former Soviet security assets between Russia and Ukraine, Deborah Sanders considers which factors promote and which hamper security cooperation. She examines the dynamics of security cooperation in three areas: the dismantling of Ukraine's tactical nuclear weapons, the removal of Ukraine's strategic nuclear weapons and the division of the Black Sea fleet. While the collapse of the Soviet Union opened up numerous possibilities for cooperation between the two countries, it also unleashed long suppressed national feelings and reawakened historical controversies. Sanders argues that the dynamics of cooperation can only be understood if these domestic political factors are taken into account.

• Europe
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Ukraine
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• Defence Studies Department, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK

  Deborah Sanders

DEBORAH SANDERS is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at Joint Services Command and Staff College.

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