1st Edition

Striving for Military Stability in Europe Negotiation, Implementation and Adaptation of the CFE Treaty

By Jane M. O. Sharp Copyright 2006
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This new book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, and focuses on the negotiation, implementation and adaptation of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. It shows that arms control agreements reflect rather than affect relations between parties and how the CFE Treaty codified parity between NATO and the Soviet-led... Read more

Preface Acknowledgements Acronyms Part I. Background to the formal CFE negotiation  1. Arms Control as a Barometer of European Politics  2. Negotiating the CFE mandate  Part II. Negotiating the treaty and assessing its impact  3. Formal Negotiations: March 1989 – November 1990  4. German Singularity, Nuclear Modernisation and the CFE–1A Agreement on Personnel  Part III. Ratification problems  5. Resolving the Discrepancies in Soviet Data, 1990–91  6. The Dissolution of the USSR, 1991–92  Part IV. Implementation  7. Implementation of the CFE Treaty: The Cup Half Full  8. Implementation: the cup half empty—non-compliance
with Article V  Part V. The need for treaty revisions  9. Treaty revisions and NATO enlargement: the Flank Agreement  10. Adapting the CFE Treaty to post-cold war Europe, 1997-1999  11. Whither the Adapted CFE Treaty under President Putin?  12. Conclusion  Appendices  Index

Biography

Jane M. O. Sharp is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies in the International Policy Institute, Kings College London. She was formerly Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and from 1998–2003 served as the British representative on the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.