New York: Palgrave Pivot. 2013. 130 p. ISBN10: 1137308125; ISBN13: 978-1137308122. Today, extensive, intensive, and interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency, power, and significance that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account for by itself. Using Russia-Latin America relations as a case study, this work explores alternative...
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 341 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-92515-8, 978-3-319-92516-5 This book examines how recent fundamental changes influence Sino-Russian relations and the wider long-term implications of the revolving Sino-Russian dynamic on international affairs. It brings together leading scholars to examine recent developments across the...
Monograph. — Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2017. — 134 p. The closing of civic space has become a defining feature of political life in an ever-increasing number of countries. Civil society organizations worldwide are facing systematic efforts to reduce their legitimacy and effectiveness. Russia, Egypt, and Ethiopia have been at the forefront of this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 245 p. — ISBN10: 1349691607; ISBN13: 978-1349691609. This edited volume analyses the evolution and main determinants of Russia's foreign policy choices. Containing contributions by renowned specialists on the topic, the study sheds light on some of the new trends that have characterised Russia's foreign policy since the beginning of Vladimir Putin's...
Harvard Kennedy School, 2015 - 38 p. Foreword Introduction: Gorbachev’s and Putin’s Different Strategic Choices to Enhance Global Competiveness ‘Strategic Encirclement’ and Breaking Out to Break Up the European Security System Implications of Putin’s Breakout Strategy for Russia Implications of Putin’s Breakout Strategy for Europe
M.E. Sharpe, 2014. — 439 p. The Tsarist Roots of Russia's Foreign Policy. Soviet Foreign Policy: From Revolution to Cold War. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Cold War. Domestic Factors in the Making of Russia's Foreign Policy. Russia and the States of the Former Soviet Union. Yeltsin and the West. Russia and the "Non-West". Russian Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World: The Putin Era.
FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS, 2003, 206 p. A Great Power in Transition Faces Globalization (The New Russia and the New World Order, The Securitization of Russian Foreign Policy under Putin, The Transformation of Russia’s Military Doctrine in the Aftermath of Kosovo and Chechnya, After the Empire: Russia’s Emerging International Identity, Putin’s Foreign Policy after 11 September....
Routledge, 2006. — 200 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe). This is an impressive work that traces the relationship between the Soviet Union and Turkey on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and the Turkish Communist Party on the other, from the consolidation of the communist regime in Moscow until its fall. The book considers how 'Soviet Eastern...
PONARS Eurasia. Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington UniversityPONARS Eurasia is an international network of academics that advances new policy approaches to research and security in Russia and Eurasia. PONARS Eurasia is based at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)...
Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2017. — 201 p. Preface and Acknowledgements The Russia File: Russia and the West in an Unordered World Russia’s Changing Relations with the West: Prospects for a New Hybrid System Fuzzy Alliances, Flexible Relations Can Ukraine Change Russia? Russia, the West, and Eastern Europe Russia and the West: Energy Warfare The Worst Friends:...
THE BACKGROUND. Russia and the U.S. – Political Background. Russia and the EU – Political Background. Roots of the Financial Crisis in the U.S. Housing Bust and the Worldwide Fallout. Russia'S DOMESTIC RESPONSE TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. The Pressure on the Russian Economy. The Rise and Fall of Russian's Gold and Currency Reserves (and Monetary Policy). The Reality of the Fallout...
Routledge, 2019. — 449 p. — (Routledge Handbooks). — ISBN10: 0815396716, 13 978-0815396710. The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world. The volume identifies key contemporary topics of research and debate and takes into account the...
Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary, Number 18. Russia, Asia, Northeast Asia, Foreign Policy In order to understand Russia’s foreign policy toward East Asia we should take into consideration the current state of affairs and main trends in Russia and the region. Then it is possible to project what Russia should do to provide its interests in East Asia. So what is going on in...
Praeger Security International, 2007. — 222 p. — ISBN 0–275–99328–0. Kreutz examines the goals and strategies of Russia and the former Soviet Union toward most of the Arab states in the Middle East. The author argues that Russia has been an important actor in the region for over a century and has tried to regain its influence in several countries following its strategic retreat...
Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, 2019. — 54 p. Russia’s Engagement Strategies in the Middle East . Russian Strategic Goals in the Middle East. Regionalization as the Key Trend of Russia’s Policy on Syria and in the Middle East. Not Getting Any Easier: Putin’s Middle East Balancing Act. Russia in the Middle East: Is There an...
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 1498510701; ISBN13: 978-1498510707 The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly on the far-right of the political spectrum. They see themselves as victims of the EU “technocracy” and liberal moral values, and look for...
Farnham: Ashgate Pub Co, 2014. — 168 p. Well argued and balanced, Leichtova provides an alternative and more constructive understanding of what drives Russian foreign policy. The book is based on the concepts of constructivism and orientalism in international relations to analyze the policies of the Russian Federation. This book highlights that Russian foreign policy is complex...
Routledge, 2008. — 336 p. This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate ‘Greater Russia’, that is, a Russia that controls most of the territory of the former Soviet Union. It shows the subtlety of the means of control, often through creating economic dependencies in the ‘near abroad’, including exploiting energy dependency, through...
Russia’s Domestic Situation Russia’s Economy and Russian Resources for Defense Russian Foreign Policy Russia’s Defense and Security Policy Today’s Russia: Implications for the United States
Bristol, 2015. — 286 p. When, on 21 November 2013, former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych decided to postpone an EU Association Agreement, few would have predicted that this would lead to a prolonged inter-communal conflict in Europe’s borderland. What started as a peaceful demonstration of support for Ukraine’s pro-European course by thousands of people in Maidan Square...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 268 p. This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal is easily within the Kremlin's grasp, but the cost to the Russian people and global security would be immense. A...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 263 p. Soviet Policy toward the Asia–Pacific Region: The 1980s. Russia’s Strategic Thought toward Asia: The Early Yeltsin Years (1991–95). Russian Strategic Thinking toward Asia, 1996–99. Russia’s Asia Policy under Vladimir Putin, 2000–5. The Russian Approach to China under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. The Policy of Russia toward Japan 1992–2005....
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 3319520776; ISBN13: 978-3319520773 This book provides a detailed analysis of Russia’s ‘great power identity’ and the role of Europe in forming this identity. ‘Great power identity’ implies an expansionist foreign policy, and yet this does not explain all the complexities of the Russian state. For instance, it cannot explain...
Encounter Books, 2016. — 200 p. Vladimir Putin has a master plan to destroy Europe, divide NATO, reclaim Russian influence in the world, and most of all to marginalize the United States and the West in order to achieve regional hegemony and global power. Putin’s unified strategy and vision for Europe has not been thoroughly discussed or articulated in any meaningful way until...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 326 p. — ISBN10: 0199945586; ISBN13: 978-0199945580 The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which...
Christian Thorun, 2009. — 203 p. Framework for Analysis. Evolution of the Russian Leadership’s Foreign Policy Thinking. Russia’s Approaches towards NATO. Russia’s Responses to the Balkan Crises (1992–1999). Russia’s Response to the 11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks.
Cambridge — New York — Melbourne — Madrid — Cape Town — Singapore — São Paulo — Delhi — Mexico City: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — xii, 317 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02552-3. Since Russia has reemerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and theWest from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by...
4th Ed. — Lanham — Boulder — New York — London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. — xxx, 305 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4422-5401-5. Winston Churchill once famously observed that the key to understanding Russia’s “enigma” is its national interest. However, he failed to explain what that interest was. It is therefore our scholarly task to uncover what Russians themselves understand to be their...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013. — 280 p. Understanding Change and Continuity in Russia’s Foreign Policy. The Cold war Crisis and Soviet New Thinking. The Post–Cold war euphoria and Russia’s Liberal Westernism. New security Challenges and Great Power balancing. The world after September 11 and Pragmatic Cooperation. US Regime Change strategy and Great Power Assertiveness....
New York: Routledge, September 1,2015. - 304 p. (Routledge Studies in Cultural History). - ISBN10: 1138916234; ISBN13: 978-1138916234 New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 245 p. Elites, Attentive Publics, and Masses in Post-Soviet Russia. Politics and Markets, with Judith Kullberg. Elite-Mass Interactions, Knowledge, and Russian Foreign Policy. Orientations to the International System and Electoral Behavior in Russia. Elite Political-Economic Orientations and Foreign Policy. NATO Expansion Past and Future: A...
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