This book is a study of cooperative security efforts between the United States and Russia since
the collapse of the Soviet Union. It undertakes an analysis of the Cooperative Threat Reduction
(CTR) Programme and several other programmes established by different U.S. Departments. The CTR
process demonstrates both the achievements and limitations of the evolving new framework of
interaction between the U.S. and Russia. This investigation is the first attempt to use the CTR
process as a case study for U.S.-Russian strategic relations in the post-Cold War international
security system. By answering the questions of why this process is prone to some persistent
problems of implementation and why it was possible in the first place it yields significant
conclusions regarding the nature of U.S.-Russian relations and the achievements as well as
limitations in the bilateral relationship since the end of the Cold War. From Antagonism to
Partnership contributes to the existing literature on cooperative threat reduction as a study
linking CTR to the wider context of the opportunities challenges and constraints determining
the nature of post-Cold War relations between the U.S. and Russia.
