Arms control and conflict resolution as games: NATO-Russian security cooperation in the post cold war period

• Main Author: Gan, Edito Catarman, Jr.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2003
• Subjects: Conflict management; Arms control; International cooperation; National security > Europe; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; International and Area Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3095; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/9933/viewcontent/CDTG003544_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis utilizes a modified reassurance game framework to understand post Cold War security cooperation in arms control and conflict resolution using the 1900-2000 security relations between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Russian Republic as case studies. It assumes that arms control and conflict resolution are linked via their effects on the resources each actor allots for defense and their perception of the other's trustworthiness. Thus, successful cooperation in one area of security will result in increased probability of success in the other area while failure to cooperate in the first area makes future cooperation in the other area nearly impossible.