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Russia: arms control, disarmament and international security
07/04/2010
Author : Russia in Global Affairs
Compiled and edited by A. Kaliadine, A. Arbatov
 
This serial publication is associated with the Russian edition of the SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, which contains supplementary materials written by IMEMO researchers.

The intention in translating in English and publishing them in separate volumes has been to inform the international expert community about the research work being done at the IMEMO. In particular, readers of the original, English version of the SIPRI Yearbooks who may wish to acquaint themselves with similar studies originating in Russia.
The authors of this volume analyze developments in 2009 in international and regional security, non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament. The themes discussed include a number of priority issues. Among them: lessons from the 1991 START and the prospects for further deep reductions of strategic nuclear weapons, parallel security issues that are likely to affect strategic stability and nuclear disarmament negotiations; the potential deployment of weapons in outer space, particularities of arms control in this environment and prospects for limiting and prohibiting space weapons; compliance and enforcement processes in the context of the NPT regime and the ways to streng¬then them. Several chapters deal with regional security problems. They include: the long-needed reform of European security and Russia’s initiative to move toward a new Euro-Atlantic security architecture; the conflict in Afghanistan and the ways to resolve it; the risks posed by nuclear Pakistan.

The brief summary of key Russian documents on security and arms control contains reference to legislative and normative acts passed in 2009. This information is useful to specialists looking for source material.

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  • Re:Russia: arms control, disarmament and international security

[Disclosure: I'm a founding staff member of SIPRI, 1968-69)

What seems relevant and might actually catalyse US-EU atlantic relation is the emerging intimacy of relation between Medvedev and Obama on just re-negotiated START... and more significantly review of NPT which will follow at UN in May 2010. For Russia domestic economic development is a political priority after collapse of SU. Disarmament is a serious policy approach to reorienting their domestic policy priorities - much the same for Obama's Pentagon budget. Thus FDI from US may actually open up Russian hinterland to structural development...a policy approach which may also facilitate EU-Russia relation - going forward.

By Hari Naidu on 4/15/2010 11:01
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