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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Article. — Ethics & Global Politics. — 2010. — Vol. 3. — No. 4. — p. 255-275. This paper addresses the 2008 Russian -Georgian conflict in the context of the post-Soviet spatial order, approached in terms of Carl Schmitt’s theory of nomos and Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception. The ‘five-day war’ was the first instance of the violation by Russia of the integrity...
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...