Celeste A Wallander
Biographic Data
| ID | 1079802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celeste A Wallander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celeste A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallander |
| SIGNATURE | WALLANDER C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How the Putin Regime Really Works
How the Putin Regime Really Works Celeste A. Wallander (bio) Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order. By Kathryn E. Stoner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 344 pp. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia. By Timothy Frye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 288 pp. Is President Vladimir Putin an all-powerful dictator, to be feared above all other threats to democracy? Or is the Russian regim…
Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military by Zoltan Barany
Russian Transimperialism and Its Implications
A fruitless debate has emerged over whether Russia is a postimperial power that seeks global cooperation or a neoimperial one that seeks to control weaker countries. Russian strategy is shaped by modern, or transnational, and imperialist causes. In other words, it is a new, transimperialist power requiring new strategies
Suspended Animation: The US and Russia after the G-8
The two countries seem to be ... simultaneously reaching out in cooperation with one hand while raising the other for a sharp blow, with neither the embrace nor the strike ever quite reaching its mark
Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine
The stability of the former Soviet states is threatened by their precarious geopolitical position within a turbulent economic and political environment. Swords and Sustenance explores the complex economic dimension of national security for two key post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Ukraine—that is, how they have dealt with the challenges posed by internal economic and political reform and their relationships with Russia and the West. The book fir…
US–Russian Relations: Between Realism and Reality
If only realism could prevail, one is tempted to hope, the United States and Russia could work together to meet their common interests in security, stability, and prosperity. Reality, however, just keeps getting in the way
Russia: Power in weakness
Russian leadership faces internal political, economic, societal, and defense challenges that will preclude Russia from achieving great‐power status in the near future. What is notable is not Russia's power but its weakness
Lost and found: Gorbachev's ‘new thinking’
Fifteen years ago, Gorbachev encouraged “new thinking,” a set of ideas that overturned the Leninist theory of international relations underpinning Soviet foreign policy. What happened to them? After September 11, are they coming back
Nato's Price: Shape up or Ship Out
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains today a unique and invaluable alliance. The single most important international institution serving U.S. national security interests during the Cold War, NATo has since continued to function as a reliable instrument for multilateral military cooperation. The alliance's outreach programs and the lure of membership for former Soviet bloc countries have constituted the core of U.S. security policy in ce…
Russia's New Security Policy and the Ballistic Missile Defense Debate
An understanding of Russia's concerns about missile defense “requires an understanding of Russia's new security, military, and foreign policy doctrines; the complex role nuclear weapons play in defense policy; the relationship between Russian conventional and nuclear capabilities; and the priorities for economic reform articulated by President Vladimir Putin's administration.”
Institutional Assets and Adaptability: Nato After the Cold War
The puzzle of NATO's persistence is best addressed as part of a larger inquiry into institutional change. Institutions persist because they are costly to create and less costly to maintain, but this institutionalist argument is incomplete. Whether institutions adapt to change depends on whether their norms, rules, and procedures are specific or general assets and on whether the asset mix matches the kinds of security problems faced by their membe…
Risk, Threat, And Security Institutions
The post-cold war world presents challenges for both policy and theory in international relations. One important challenge to international relations theory is the anomaly of NATO’s continuity after the cold war. Inspired by the Soviet threat, created under American leadership, designed to bolster the security of its members against the Soviet Union by aggregating defence capabilities, NATO ought to be either collapsing or withering away: dying w…
Imperfect unions: Security Institutions Over Time and Space
Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War
Several hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive situation. Through an investigation of the strategies of German and Russian decision-makers, Celeste A. Wallander explores what conditions facilitate or hinder international cooperation in security m…
Interests and the Wall of Ideas: Germany's Eastern Trade Policy after Unification
Since 1989, Germany's domestic and international environments have experienced significant changes. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that the country's long-standing foreign and domestic policies will adapt to novel challenges and pressures. This article examines eastern trade policy, an area in which one might expect to observe a greater degree of government intervention postunification. In fact, no such adaptation has taken place. This empirica…
Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment, by Fen Osler Hampson and Michael Hart
Journal Article Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment, by Fen Osler Hampson and Michael Hart Get access Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment by Fen Osler Hampson with Michael Hart. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 421 pp. $49.95. Celeste A. Wallander Celeste A. Wallander Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Opportunity, Incrementalism, and Learning in the Extension and Retraction of Soviet Global Commitments
Third-World Conflict in Soviet Military Thought: Does the “New Thinking” Grow Prematurely Grey
New thinking” in Soviet foreign policy may change Soviet understanding of the nature of conflict in the third world, Soviet interests in those conflicts, and therefore Soviet conflict behavior. While these shifts are widespread and significant, they are being resisted by military analysts, which indicates that Soviet policy may not be so easily or directly altered. Many military writers accept that escalation risks are extreme and threaten Soviet…
Institutional Assets and Adaptability: Nato After the Cold War
The puzzle of NATO's persistence is best addressed as part of a larger inquiry into institutional change. Institutions persist because they are costly to create and less costly to maintain, but this institutionalist argument is incomplete. Whether institutions adapt to change depends on whether their norms, rules, and procedures are specific or general assets and on whether the asset mix matches the kinds of security problems faced by their membe…
Russian Transimperialism and Its Implications
A fruitless debate has emerged over whether Russia is a postimperial power that seeks global cooperation or a neoimperial one that seeks to control weaker countries. Russian strategy is shaped by modern, or transnational, and imperialist causes. In other words, it is a new, transimperialist power requiring new strategies
Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War
Several hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive situation. Through an investigation of the strategies of German and Russian decision-makers, Celeste A. Wallander explores what conditions facilitate or hinder international cooperation in security m…
Third-World Conflict in Soviet Military Thought: Does the “New Thinking” Grow Prematurely Grey
New thinking” in Soviet foreign policy may change Soviet understanding of the nature of conflict in the third world, Soviet interests in those conflicts, and therefore Soviet conflict behavior. While these shifts are widespread and significant, they are being resisted by military analysts, which indicates that Soviet policy may not be so easily or directly altered. Many military writers accept that escalation risks are extreme and threaten Soviet…
Russia: Power in weakness
Russian leadership faces internal political, economic, societal, and defense challenges that will preclude Russia from achieving great‐power status in the near future. What is notable is not Russia's power but its weakness
Nato's Price: Shape up or Ship Out
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains today a unique and invaluable alliance. The single most important international institution serving U.S. national security interests during the Cold War, NATo has since continued to function as a reliable instrument for multilateral military cooperation. The alliance's outreach programs and the lure of membership for former Soviet bloc countries have constituted the core of U.S. security policy in ce…
Lost and found: Gorbachev's ‘new thinking’
Fifteen years ago, Gorbachev encouraged “new thinking,” a set of ideas that overturned the Leninist theory of international relations underpinning Soviet foreign policy. What happened to them? After September 11, are they coming back
Opportunity, Incrementalism, and Learning in the Extension and Retraction of Soviet Global Commitments
Third-World Conflict in Soviet Military Thought: Does the “New Thinking” Grow Prematurely Grey
New thinking” in Soviet foreign policy may change Soviet understanding of the nature of conflict in the third world, Soviet interests in those conflicts, and therefore Soviet conflict behavior. While these shifts are widespread and significant, they are being resisted by military analysts, which indicates that Soviet policy may not be so easily or directly altered. Many military writers accept that escalation risks are extreme and threaten Soviet…
Opportunity, Incrementalism, and Learning in the Extension and Retraction of Soviet Global Commitments
Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment, by Fen Osler Hampson and Michael Hart
Journal Article Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment, by Fen Osler Hampson and Michael Hart Get access Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment by Fen Osler Hampson with Michael Hart. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 421 pp. $49.95. Celeste A. Wallander Celeste A. Wallander Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Interests and the Wall of Ideas: Germany's Eastern Trade Policy after Unification
Since 1989, Germany's domestic and international environments have experienced significant changes. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that the country's long-standing foreign and domestic policies will adapt to novel challenges and pressures. This article examines eastern trade policy, an area in which one might expect to observe a greater degree of government intervention postunification. In fact, no such adaptation has taken place. This empirica…
Risk, Threat, And Security Institutions
The post-cold war world presents challenges for both policy and theory in international relations. One important challenge to international relations theory is the anomaly of NATO’s continuity after the cold war. Inspired by the Soviet threat, created under American leadership, designed to bolster the security of its members against the Soviet Union by aggregating defence capabilities, NATO ought to be either collapsing or withering away: dying w…
Imperfect unions: Security Institutions Over Time and Space
Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War
Several hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when that state was reunited with its western counterpart. The peaceful transfer of these soldiers to their homeland produced a welcome outcome to a potentially explosive situation. Through an investigation of the strategies of German and Russian decision-makers, Celeste A. Wallander explores what conditions facilitate or hinder international cooperation in security m…
Russia's New Security Policy and the Ballistic Missile Defense Debate
An understanding of Russia's concerns about missile defense “requires an understanding of Russia's new security, military, and foreign policy doctrines; the complex role nuclear weapons play in defense policy; the relationship between Russian conventional and nuclear capabilities; and the priorities for economic reform articulated by President Vladimir Putin's administration.”
Institutional Assets and Adaptability: Nato After the Cold War
The puzzle of NATO's persistence is best addressed as part of a larger inquiry into institutional change. Institutions persist because they are costly to create and less costly to maintain, but this institutionalist argument is incomplete. Whether institutions adapt to change depends on whether their norms, rules, and procedures are specific or general assets and on whether the asset mix matches the kinds of security problems faced by their membe…
Lost and found: Gorbachev's ‘new thinking’
Fifteen years ago, Gorbachev encouraged “new thinking,” a set of ideas that overturned the Leninist theory of international relations underpinning Soviet foreign policy. What happened to them? After September 11, are they coming back
Nato's Price: Shape up or Ship Out
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains today a unique and invaluable alliance. The single most important international institution serving U.S. national security interests during the Cold War, NATo has since continued to function as a reliable instrument for multilateral military cooperation. The alliance's outreach programs and the lure of membership for former Soviet bloc countries have constituted the core of U.S. security policy in ce…
US–Russian Relations: Between Realism and Reality
If only realism could prevail, one is tempted to hope, the United States and Russia could work together to meet their common interests in security, stability, and prosperity. Reality, however, just keeps getting in the way
Russia: Power in weakness
Russian leadership faces internal political, economic, societal, and defense challenges that will preclude Russia from achieving great‐power status in the near future. What is notable is not Russia's power but its weakness
Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine
The stability of the former Soviet states is threatened by their precarious geopolitical position within a turbulent economic and political environment. Swords and Sustenance explores the complex economic dimension of national security for two key post-Soviet countries, Belarus and Ukraine—that is, how they have dealt with the challenges posed by internal economic and political reform and their relationships with Russia and the West. The book fir…
Suspended Animation: The US and Russia after the G-8
The two countries seem to be ... simultaneously reaching out in cooperation with one hand while raising the other for a sharp blow, with neither the embrace nor the strike ever quite reaching its mark
Russian Transimperialism and Its Implications
A fruitless debate has emerged over whether Russia is a postimperial power that seeks global cooperation or a neoimperial one that seeks to control weaker countries. Russian strategy is shaped by modern, or transnational, and imperialist causes. In other words, it is a new, transimperialist power requiring new strategies
Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military by Zoltan Barany
How the Putin Regime Really Works
How the Putin Regime Really Works Celeste A. Wallander (bio) Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order. By Kathryn E. Stoner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 344 pp. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia. By Timothy Frye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 288 pp. Is President Vladimir Putin an all-powerful dictator, to be feared above all other threats to democracy? Or is the Russian regim…
Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Foreign policy (6 works)