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Book SynopsisExamines the foreign policy of contemporary Russia. This work explains the impact of empire and its loss, the interweaving of domestic and foreign impulses, long-standing approaches to national security, and the effect of globalization over time. It focuses on the underlying patterns that have marked Russian foreign policy.
Trade Review[A] great, thumping, satisfying book about the mainsprings of Russian foreign policy. -- Sir Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-92 RUSI Journal A major work that needs to be read by those interested in where Russia might be headed over the coming decades. -- Peter C. Pozefsky Slavic Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Living in the Hood: Russia, Empire, and Old and New Neighbors, by Ronald Grigor Suny 2. Russian Foreign Policy During Periods of Great State Transformation, by Robert Legvold 3. Domestic Conjunctures, the Russian State, and the World Outside, 1700-2006, by David McDonald 4. How Persistent Are Persistent Factors?, by Alfred J. Rieber 5. Russian Concepts of National Security, by Lawrence T. Caldwell 6. Russia in Northeast Asia: In Search of a Strategy, by Gilbert Rozman 7. Reluctant Europeans: Three Centuries of Russian Ambivalence Toward the West, by Angela Stent 8. Global Challenges and Russian Foreign Policy, by Celeste A. Wallander Contributors Index
