Hard Balancing in the Age of American Unipolarity : The Russian Response to US Ballistic Missile Defense during the Bush Administration (2001- 2008) / Reuben Steffa & Nicholas Khoob
Language: English Subject(s): In: The Journal of Strategic Studies . -- Vol. 37 No. 2, (Apr. 2014)Abstract: One of the central debates in contemporary international relations scholarship concerns the issue of whether balancing has occurred in response to US-based unipolarity, and if it has, how this should be characterised. Existing research has seen analysts argue that major power responses to unipolarity can be placed in one of either three categories: an absence of balancing, soft balancing, and hard balancing. This article contributes to the scholarly literature by providing a case study of hard internal Russian balancing against the US's development and deployment of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems during the Bush Administration (2001- 08).Revista R0231 (MAEC -Biblioteca Central)
One of the central debates in contemporary international relations scholarship concerns the issue of whether balancing has occurred in response to US-based unipolarity, and if it has, how this should be characterised. Existing research has seen analysts argue that major power responses to unipolarity can be placed in one of either three categories: an absence of balancing, soft balancing, and hard balancing. This article contributes to the scholarly literature by providing a case study of hard internal Russian balancing against the US's development and deployment of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems during the Bush Administration (2001- 08).