6.1 'The Notion of a Regime'

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Russia and Nuclear Arms Control

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Saint Petersburg State University

Russia and Nuclear Arms Control

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As a state with one of the largest arsenals of nuclear weapons Russia is a key participant of nuclear non-proliferation regime and defines nuclear arms control as a priority of its foreign policy. This course will discover the logic and the frames of Russian nuclear arms control policies. You will learn the historical background and the modern context of bilateral US-Russian relations in nuclear arms control and understand how these relations influence the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. You will get the basic tools for analyzing Russian defence and security policy in regards to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Upon the completion this course the students will… ...be able to - analyze the actions of a state from the point of view of the present treaties on nuclear arms control; - come up with their own opinion on the problem commented by the arms control experts; - make arguments supporting their position in discussions of nuclear arms control. ...get to know - the technical, political and strategic aspects of agreements on nuclear arms control; - the content of arms control treaties in which Russia participates; - the trustworthy informational resources dedicated to the problem of nuclear arms control. ...be familiar with - the special terminology in the area of arms control; - the modern state and the perspectives of international policy regarding nuclear arms control; - the basics of Russia’s nuclear arms control policy.

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Russia - U.S. Nuclear Arms Control Regime

6.1 'The Notion of a Regime'6:13

6.2 'Efficiencey, Sufficiency, and Sustainability. Part 1'10:08

6.3 'Efficiencey, Sufficiency, and Sustainability. Part 2'15:15

6.4 'Nuclear Weapons: How Many are Enough?'12:22

6.5 'Nuclear Weapons: How to Calculate?'8:13

6.6 'Treaty Obligations: How to Verify?'7:28

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Anastasia A. Malygina
Assistant Professor
Department of Theory and History of International Relations
Andrey Y. Pavlov
Professor
Department of Theory and History of International Relations

[MUSIC]

In this video, we're going to talk about an international regime as

a phenomenon of international relations.

There is a longstanding academic debate

regarding the interpretation of the notion of the regime.

The debate was started by Steven Krasner in 1983,

when he published the following definition.

Eyesight, an international regime,

is a set of implicit and explicit principles,

norms, rules and decision making procedures

around which actor's expectations converge

in a given area of international relations.

End of quote.

The principles and norms of an international regime

are relatively most stable than its rules and procedures.

We can describe principles and norms as fundamentals of a regime.

Rules and the procedures, by contrast, serve as shock absorbing mechanisms for

a regime and can be used to adapt the regime

to the change in the environment in which it exists.

The participants of the regime have certain expectations.

They will be ready to comply with the obligations under some

international agreement, as long as the benefits from

participating in the regime will satisfy the national interests.

International regime regulate the behavior of the participants

in the certain area of international relations.

So, participating in the regime, the participant may compensate,

or mitigate the negative effects of the international environment,

or enhance its own political influence and political power.

International regimes exist in an international environment.

So, they are not static constructions.

They can appear, stagnate or decline.

They can be developed, weakened, eroded or strengthened.

Traditionally, international regimes are established by

governments by the state parties to the agreement.

However, nongovernmental actors can also participate in the regime and

can frame it.

Any international regime is a system that consists of several elements and

is influenced by the environment in which it exists.

So what is the reason for participating in an international regime?

Basically, the State may participate in

a regime because of several reasons, and

the more common reasons include the following.

Firstly, There might be a problem

that can be tackled more effectively through

multilateral cooperation than by a unilateral action.

Secondly, long-term cooperation is possible and preferable.

Thirdly, it is possible to guarantee

relative transparency concerning the intentions and

capacities of the states that participate in the regime.

And it is possible to guarantee that state parties to the regime will

make everything possible to follow the obligations,

regarding the norm of good faith and reciprocity.

So an international regime may be described

as a system that consists of several elements.

And the more developed and mature the regime is,

the more elements construct its architecture.

A global, mature regime may include sub-regimes,

both bilateral and multilateral.

The architecture of the regime may include various forms of bilateral and

multilateral calculation, namely diplomatic interactions, confidence,

and transparency measures, verification procedures,

export control measures, enforcement procedures and adaptation mechanisms.

These combinations of elements create a stable network of interdependency.

In the next video, we will discover how a regime functions.

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