U.S.-Russian military relations: Between friend and foe

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 161-172

  Mendelson, Sarah E ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0039484725     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/016366002753358393     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Staff members of the Office of Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Affairs, interview by author, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001.
2. Sarah E. Mendelson, "U.S.-Russian Military Relations Ten Years after the Cold War," paper prepared for the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, D.C. (September 2001).
3. William J. Perry, interview by author, Palo Alto, Calif., August 20, 2001.
4. Wesley K. Clark, Waging Modern War (New York: PublicAffairs, 2001), pp. 375-403.
5. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, telephone interview by author, September 9, 2001 (Sherwood-Randall is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia); see also Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry, Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999).
6. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, telephone interview by author, September 9, 2001 (Sherwood-Randall is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia); see also Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry, Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999).
7. Perry interview.
8. Ibid.
9. Col. Robert Boudreau, interview by author, Washington, D.C., June 19, 2001 (Boudreau is chief of J-5, Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Division).
10. Boudreau interview; Dr. Jeffrey Starr, interview by author, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001 (Starr was, at the time, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia).
11. Masha Lipman, "Will Russia Join the War of the West?" Washington Post, September 19, 2001.
12. Starr interview.
13. Former U.S. embassy official, interview by author, Washington, D.C., August 2001.
14. Capt. Robert Brannon, interview by author, Moscow, June 10, 2001 (Brannon was, at the time, the naval attaché); Capt. Jonathan Laahs, interview by author, Moscow, June 4, 2001 (Laahs was an assistant air attaché at the time of the interview).
15. Capt. Robert Brannon, interview by author, Moscow, June 10, 2001 (Brannon was, at the time, the naval attaché); Capt. Jonathan Laahs, interview by author, Moscow, June 4, 2001 (Laahs was an assistant air attaché at the time of the interview).
16. Laahs interview.
17. Starr interview.
18. Perry interview; see also Carter and Perry, Preventive Defense, p. 27.
19. Ashton Carter, interview by author, Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2001 (Carter is a former assistant secretary of defense); Maj. Rich Choppa, interview by author, Washington, D.C., December 29, 2000 (Choppa is a staff member of the Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia office in the Pentagon); Gen. Eugene Habiger (Ret.), interview by author, San Antonio, Tex., August 15, 2001.
20. Ashton Carter, interview by author, Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2001 (Carter is a former assistant secretary of defense); Maj. Rich Choppa, interview by author, Washington, D.C., December 29, 2000 (Choppa is a staff member of the Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia office in the Pentagon); Gen. Eugene Habiger (Ret.), interview by author, San Antonio, Tex., August 15, 2001.
21. Ashton Carter, interview by author, Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2001 (Carter is a former assistant secretary of defense); Maj. Rich Choppa, interview by author, Washington, D.C., December 29, 2000 (Choppa is a staff member of the Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia office in the Pentagon); Gen. Eugene Habiger (Ret.), interview by author, San Antonio, Tex., August 15, 2001.
22. Sources in Russia; Bosnia; and Washington, D.C.; e-mail communication and interviews by author, 2000-2001; see also Madeline Rees, "Report on Joint Trafficking Project of the UNMIBH/OHCR" (Rees is with the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina);
23. Colum Lynch, "Ex-U.N. Officer Sues U.S. Firm over Dismissal," Washington Post, June 23, 2001, p. 20.
24. Maj. Steven Sabia, interview by author, Newport, R.I., August 8, 2001 (Sabia served in Bosnia from August 1997 through December 1997).
25. Former senior U.S. diplomat, e-mail communication, September 7, 2001.
26. Sarah E. Mendeson, "The Power of Human Rights? Getting Away with Norms Violations in Russia," International Security 26, no. 4 (forthcoming, spring 2002).
27. See Human Rights Watch, Welcome to Hell: Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Extortion in Chechnya (New York: Human Rights Watch, October 2000); Elizabeth Rubin, "Down the Dark Hole of Chechnya," New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2001.
28. See Human Rights Watch, Welcome to Hell: Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Extortion in Chechnya (New York: Human Rights Watch, October 2000); Elizabeth Rubin, "Down the Dark Hole of Chechnya," New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2001.
29. Starr interview.
30. Ibid.
31. Anne Nivat, Chienne De Guerre: A Woman Reporter behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya (New York: Public Affairs, 2001).
32. U.S. military officer, interview by author, Washington, D.C., June 2001.