Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between : The Use of Power Resources in U.S. Policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989–2008.
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I Introduction -- I.1 The background -- I.1.1 Preserving the unipolar moment -- I.1.2 On the ground: the U.S. in Central and Eastern Europe -- I.2 Empirical objectives -- II The theoretical framework and methodology -- II.1 Introduction and research questions -- II.1.1 Neoclassical realism: an introduction -- II.1.2 Elite perceptions: of more than just the system? -- II.2 Non-friends, friends and undecided states -- II.2.1 Non-friends -- II.2.2 Friends -- II.2.3 Concluding remarks: undecided states -- II.3 Two types of power resources and foreign policy tools -- II.3.1 Power in political realism -- II.3.2 Positive and negative power: the relevance of base values -- II.3.3 Negative power and its bases -- II.3.4 Positive power and its bases -- II.3.5 Power resources and foreign policy tools -- II.4 Linking states' friend / non-friend / undecided status to power -- II.5 Concluding remarks on the theoretical framework -- II.6 Methodological considerations -- II.6.1 The cases -- II.6.2 Sources -- II.6.3 Research design: Comparative case studies -- II.6.4 Three steps in addressing the sources -- III U.S. Foreign Policies Towards Poland -- III.1 Introduction -- III.2 Laying the foundations: the U.S. and Solidarność -- III.2.1 Accompanying Poland to de facto independence 1989-1991 -- III.2.2 Foreign Policy Tools in Solidarność-times -- III.3 An emerging new best friend in Europe: the second Gulf War and NATO enlargement -- III.3.1 Euro-Atlantic integration or: Overcoming Yalta -- III.3.2 Foreign policy tools 1991 to 2000 -- III.4 The heydays and their aftermath: 2001 onwards -- III.4.1 State Tourism: Bush, Kwaśniewski and the Iraq war -- III.4.2 Foreign policy tools 2001 to 2005 -- III.5 After Kwaśniewski: 2005 onwards -- III.5.1 The double Kaczyński era. III.5.2 Donald Tusk, the conclusion of the Missile Defence Agreement-and still no visa waiver programme -- III.5.3 Foreign policy tools after Kwaśniewski -- III.6 Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Poland 1989-2008 -- IV U.S. Foreign Policies Towards Ukraine -- IV.1 Introduction: America's recognition of Ukraine's independence -- IV.2 The early years: Moscow-centrism and a focus on nuclear non-proliferation 1991 to 1994 -- IV.2.1 Solving the nuclear question -- IV.2.2 The Lisbon Protocol and Ukraine's accession to the NPT as a nuclear-free state -- IV.2.3 Foreign Policy Tools in solving the nuclear question -- IV.3 Conventional non-proliferation: Ukraine's accession to the MTCR, Bushehr and the Satellite Deal 1994 to 1998 -- IV.3.1 Getting Ukraine to join the MTCR -- IV.3.2 The Policy of issue linkage: non-proliferation, nuclear power plants and satellites -- IV.3.3 Foreign Policy Tools in making Ukraine join the MTCR -- IV.4 Euro-Atlantic integration: Ukraine in its wider context 1994 to 2004 -- IV.4.1 The U.S.-Ukrainian honeymoon: broadening relations -- IV.4.2 Setbacks and frustration -- IV.4.3 Multilateralising Ukraine's transformation: Ukraine and NATO -- IV.4.4 Foreign Policy Tools in promoting Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration -- IV.5 After the Orange Revolution: diminished U.S. interest 2004 to 2008 -- IV.5.1 Few illusions left: the Orange Revolution and its aftermath -- IV.5.2 Foreign policy tools 2004 to 2008 -- IV.6 Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Ukraine -- V U.S. Foreign Policies Towards Belarus -- V.1 Introduction: At odds with the West -- V.2 Belarus and the US: the early years -- V.2.1 Belarus: The unproblematic answer to the nuclear question -- V.2.2 Foreign policy tools in early U.S.-Belarusian relations -- V.3 Lukashenka and "Selective Engagement "with Minsk. V.3.1 Rigged elections and referenda: Deteriorating relations -- V.3.2 The Belarus Democracy Act -- V.3.3 Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Personae Non Gratae -- V.3.4 "Selective engagement" and foreign policy tools -- V.4 The wider context: Belarus in international politics -- V.4.1 The Bush II era: Belarus as a rogue state? -- V.4.2 Belarus and Euro-Atlantic Integration -- V.4.3 The wider context and foreign policy tools -- V.5 Conclusions on U.S. foreign policies towards Belarus 1991-2008 -- VI Conclusions -- VI.1 Returning to the research questions -- VI.2 Empirical findings: U.S. post-Cold War policies towards Poland, Ukraine and Belarus -- VI.3 Implications for theory building: linking status to power -- VI.3.1 Friends, non-friends and undecided states: an element of the missing link -- VI.3.2 A category of its own: undecided states -- VI.3.3 Positive and negative power as means to shape and control the environment -- VI.4 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.
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