Security and sovereignty in the former Soviet Union /

This book explores the interactions between conceptions of state sovereignty and security in the post-Soviet space. It does so through three case studies involving Russia's relations with Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus over military assets. The collapse of the Soviet Union meant that the state which owned and controlled military assets no longer existed. Consequently, there were disputes among the successor states over the division of these assets. The disputes were structured according differing understandings of security and sovereignty by each of the states involved. Deyermond (King's College, UK) provides the reader with two important elements for understanding how the disputes emerged--the positions taken by the actors and the outcomes of the negotiations. She includes a chapter in which she develops and articulates the two different understandings of sovereignty (Western and Soviet) which underlie the positions in the disputes. And, she explores the emergence and resolution of the disputes through three case studies: the dispute between Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus over ownership of nuclear weapons; the dispute between Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine over ownership of the Black Sea fleet; and, the dispute between Russia, Georgia, and Belarus over ownership of military bases. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. D. V. Schwartz University of Toronto