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  • 10 - The Stickiness of Strategy

  • from Part II - Continuity and Change Across the 1989/1991 Divide
  • Edited by Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University, Connecticut, Fritz Bartel, Texas A & M University
  • Book:
    Before and After the Fall
    Published online:
    02 December 2021
    Print publication:
    23 December 2021, pp 188-205

  • Summary

    The collapse of the Soviet Union radically changed the external and domestic environment for a new Russian state. Existing political science theories predict that radical changes to the international system or to the domestic regime affect the content of nuclear strategy. This chapter uses Russian archival and oral history sources on nuclear decision-making from the 1980s and 1990s to demonstrate that such change did not take place in Russian nuclear strategy. Soviet strategic thought and institutional mechanisms for strategy formulation would prove sticky, producing continuity rather than change in this area. The Soviet tradition for deterring nuclear war by preparing to fight it has continued to shape Russian nuclear strategy throughout the entire post-Cold War era.