DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ON RUSSIA, THE SOVIET UNION, By.
NATO is an abbreviation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is also known as the North Atlantic Alliance. This treaty was critical in the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was signed on 4th April, 1949 between some European countries and North America.
After the formal end of the cold war in 1991, NATO reached out to former members of the Warsaw Pact (the communist military Alliance created in 1955 by the USSR to try to counter NATO effects). In 1999, former Warsaw Pact members, i.e. Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic, became a limited partner of NATO as a member of the NATO-Russian Council.
She wrote her dissertation on the European Neighbourhood Policy (with regard to the East) and publishes extensively in English and French on the topics of the European Union and the Eastern flank’s security, the relations with the Eastern Partnership countries, NATO and Russia.
The perceived discrepancy between Russian public opinion and policy regarding NATO and the European Union is examined here; that is, policy seems to favor NATO, while the public favors the EU. However, it will be proven that it is not so much a discrepancy as a utilization of organizations to put forward Russia’s interests, on which both the public and the policy elites agree.
Masters dissertations MA Contemporary European Studies (with transatlantic track) The Smartness of the European Unions Smart Sanctions Regime Against Russia. Sabrina Heber, 2018. EU-NATO Cooperation: Effectiveness in Maritime Crisis Management. Lucie Lena Haupenthal, 2018.
Michael Mandelbaum, The New Russian Foreign Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relation Books, 1998), 4-6. Ted Hopf, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002), 155. Andrei Tsygankov, Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013.
The same applies to relations between the Czech Republic and Germany, Hungary and Romania, Romania and Ukraine. Similarly, the desire to become a NATO member influences the attitude of Slovenia to Italy and Lithuania to Poland. Reconciliation process unfolding between Poland and Russia, also promises to be more active in the foreseeable future.