Eric A. Miller

To Balance or Not to Balance

Alignment Theory and the Commonwealth of Independent States

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, fifteen newly independent states emerged from the imperial wreckage, some more ready than others to grasp their new found independence. This book tackles the seminal question related to these broader developments: why did some states choose to align with Russia, despite Moscow's overwhelming power advantage and recurrent neo-imperial ambitions? Eric A. Miller develops and tests a theoretical framework that extends traditional realist alignment theories to include domestic level political and economic variables critical to the study of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Specifically,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-351-87886-9
EAN: 9781351878869
Produktnummer: 24435879
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'407 KB

Über den Autor

Eric A. Miller is an International Affairs Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP), Fairfax, Virginia, USA and currently provides on-site support for the Missile Defense Agency's International Affairs Directorate, where he concentrates on missile defense issues pertaining to Russia, Ukraine and the rest of Eurasia. He is also a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Affairs at George Washington University, Washington, DC. His articles on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, US foreign and defense policy, and international relations theory have appeared in leading publications such as Astropolitics, Comparative Strategy, Defense News, European Security, Financial Times, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism, Security Studies, and US Naval Institute's Proceedings.