Kind words, cruise missiles, and everything in between : the use of power resources in U.S. policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989-2008 / Barbara Kunz ; with a foreword by William Hill.
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem-Verlag,
[2017]
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| Series: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The background
- Preserving the unipolar moment
- On the ground : the U.S. in Central and Eastern Europe
- Empirical objectives
- 0The theoretical framework and methodology
- Introduction and research questions
- Neoclassical realism : an introduction
- Elite perceptions : of more than just the system?
- Non-friends, friends and undecided states
- Non-friends
- Friends
- Concluding remarks : undecided states
- Two types of power resources and foreign policy tools
- Power in political realism
- Positive and negative power : the relevance of base values
- Negative power and its bases
- Positive power and its bases
- Power resources and foreign policy tools
- Linking states' friend, non-friend, undecided status to power
- Concluding remarks on the theoretical framework
- Methodological considerations
- The cases
- Sources
- Research design : comparative case studies
- Three steps in addressing the sourses
- U.S. Foreign policies towards Poland
- Introduction
- Laying the foundations : the U.S. and Solidarność
- Accompanying Poland to de facto independence 1989-1991
- Foreign policy tools in Solidarność-times
- An emerging new best friend in Europe : the second Gulf War and NATO enlargement
- Euro-Atlantic integration or : Overcoming Yalta
- Foreign policy tools 1991 to 2000
- The heydays and their aftermath : 2001 onwards
- State Tourism : Bush, Kwaśniewski and the Iraq war
- Foreign policy tools 2001 to 2005
- After Kwaśniewski : 2005 onwards
- The double Kaczyński era
- Donald Tusk, the conclusion of the Missile Defence Agreement : and still no visa waiver programme
- Foreign policy tools after Kwaśniewski
- Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Poland 1989-2008
- U.S. Foreign policies towards Ukraine
- Introduction : America's recognition of Ukraine's independence
- The early years : Moscow-centrism and a focus on nuclear non-proliferation 1991 to 1994
- Solving the nuclear question
- The Lisbon Protocol and Ukraine's accession to the NPT as a nuclear-free state
- Foreign policy tools in solving the nuclear question
- Conventional non-proliferation : Ukraine's accession to the MTCR, Bushehr and the Satellite Deal 1994 to 1998
- Getting Ukraine to join the MTCR
- The policy of issue linkage : non-proliferation, nuclear power plants and satellites
- Foreign Policy Tools in making Ukraine join the MTCR
- Euro-Atlantic integration : Ukraine in its wider context 1994 to 2004
- The U.S.-Ukrainian honeymoon : broadening relations
- Setbacks and frustration
- Multilateralising Ukraine's transformation : Ukraine and NATO
- Foreign policy tools in promoting Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration
- After the Orange revolution : diminished U.S. interest 2004 to 2008
- Few illusions left : the Orange revolution and its aftermath
- Foreign policy tools 2004 to 2008
- Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Ukraine
- U.S. Foreign Policies Towards Belarus
- Introduction : At odds with the West
- Belarus and the US : the early years
- Belarus : The unproblematic answer to the nuclear question
- Foreign policy tools in early U.S.-Belarusian relations
- Lukashenka and "selective engagement" with minsk
- Rigged elections and referenda : deteriorating relations
- The Belarus Democracy Act
- Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Personae Non Gratae
- "Selective engagement" and foreign policy tools
- The wider context : belarus in international politics
- The Bush II era : Belarus as a rogue state?
- Belarus and Euro-Atlantic integration
- The wider context and foreign policy tools
- Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Belarus 1991-2008
- Conclusions
- Returning to the research questions
- Empirical findings : U.S. post-Cold War policies towards Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
- Implications for theory building : linking status to power
- Friends, non-friends and undecided states : an element of the missing link
- A category of its own : undecided states
- Positive and negative power as means to shape and control the environment
- Final remarks
- Annex
- High-level contacts between the U.S. and Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
- References
- Primary Sources
- Speeches, press releases and briefings
- Background notes
- Treaties, laws, reports and official strategies
- Websites
- Books and articles
- Media sources.