SERGEI A. BABURKIN Associate Professor of Contemporary History and Politics, Yaroslav Pedagogical University, Yaroslav, RussiaVICTOR P. BUDURA Colonel, United States Air Force, and Department of Future Conflict Studies, United States Air Force, Air War College, Air University, Maxwell AFBANNA S. BUKHAROVA Lt. Colonel, Russian Armed Forces, and Post-Doctoral Candidate, Department of Philosophy and History of Religion, Higher Military College of HumanitiesCONSTANTINE P. DANOPOULOS President, Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society of the International Political Science Association, and teacher, Political Science, San Jose State UniversityGRANT T. HAMMOND Professor of International Relations, United States Air Force, Air War College, Air University, Maxwell AFBBARBARA JANCAR-WEBSTER Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, BrockportVALENTIN V. LARIONOV Doctor of Historical Sciences, Military Consultant, and Professor, Institute of USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of SciencesWILLIAM C. POTTER Professor and Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)BARRY R. SCHNEIDER Professor of International Relations, United States Air Force, Air War College, Air University, Maxwell AFBVASSILY I. SOKOLOV holds a PhD degree in International Environmental Economics from the Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of SciencesTIMOTHY L. THOMAS analyst, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KansasVLADIMIR K. VOLKOV Director, Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of SciencesEDWARD J. WILLIAMS Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona

'An outstanding contribution by American and Russian scholars to our understanding of pressing contemporary and future security issues. It will be of great value to professionals and students alike.' - Michael M. Boll, Professor of International Security and Russian Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies '...an intriguing book which captures a moment in the relationship between the United States and post-Soviet era Russia. Global Security presents a slice of reality as known at the moment of writing to the contributors to this thin volume.' - Kurt F. Jensen, Intelligence & National Security

• Preface PART I: THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA: TOWARD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The United States and Russia: Partnership in the Next Century?; V.A.Kremenyuk United States-Russian Security Relations on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century; S.Cross PART II: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR US-RUSSIAN MILITARY-SECURITY COOPERATION AFTER THE COLD WAR The Politics of US-Russian Military Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era; C.P.Danopoulos, A.S.Bukharova, V.M.Gevorgian & S.A.Baburkin Information Technology: US-Russian Perspectives and Potential for Military-Political Cooperation; T.L.Thomas Proliferation Challenges and Nonproliferation Opportunities in the Post-Cold War Era; W.C.Potter PART IIl: NEW DIMENSIONS OF SECURITY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The Russian Quest for a New Identity: Implications for Security in Eurasia; I.A.Zevelev Environmental Security: Challenges for the United States and Russia; B.Jancar-Webster & V.I.Sokolov New Directions in US Security Policy and Mexico After Cold War: Democracy, Trade, Migrants and Drugs; E.J.Williams PART IV: POST-COLD WAR REGIONAL CONFLICT: SOURCES, INTERVENTION AND CONSEQUENCES American and Regional Conflict in the Post-Cold/Gulf Era: Some Implications for the Future; G.T.Hammond The Balkan Quagmire: Clash of Civilizations?; V.K.Volkov PART V: MILITARY STRATEGY AND FUTURE WARS Visions of the Battlefields of the Future and America's Response; B.R.Schneider & V.P.Budura Russian Military Doctrine/Strategy, Future Security Threats and Warfare; V.V.Larionov About the Editors and Contributors Index