Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

After the collapse of the Soviet Union expectations were high that a 'new world order' was emerging in which Russia and the other former Soviet republics would join the Western community of nations. That has not occurred. This volume explains the reasons for this failure and assesses likely future developments in that relationship

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JOHN BERRYMAN teaches International Relations in the Department of Politics of Birkbeck College, University of London, UK and is Associate Professor in International Studies at the American Institute for Foreign Study, London, UK JOAN DEBARDELEBEN Chancellor's Professor at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and Director of the Centre for European Studies (EU Centre of Excellence) Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada TUOMAS FORSBERG Professor of International Politics at the University of Tampere, Finland GRAEME HERD resident Faculty Member at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Switzerland NIKITA LOMAGIN Professor of World Economy, St. Petersburg State University, Russia SUSANNE NIES Head of the IFRI (Institut français des relations internationales) Brussels Office, Belgium and Senior Research Fellow in the IFRI energy programme BERTIL NYGREN Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish National Defence College and at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden INGMAR OLDBERG Associate Director of Research at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden VLADIMIR OLEGOVICH RUKAVISHNIKOV Independent Expert-consultant ANTTI SEPPO PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland PETER SHEARMAN Principal Fellow in Political Science at Melbourne University, Australia METTE SKAK Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict research in the Department of PoliticalScience, University of Aarhus, Denmark CHARLES E. ZIEGLER Professor and University Scholar in the Political Science Department at the University of Louisville, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century; R.E.Kanet History, Russia and the West, and Cold Wars; P.Shearman Aims and Means in Russian Foreign Policy; I.Oldberg Russian Modernization Pathways: Foreign Policy Implications; G.Herd Assessing Russia's 'Soft Power' in a Globalising World; V.Rukavishnikov Russia and Georgia: From Confrontation to War. What is Next?; B.Nygren EU as Peace Mediator in Georgia: Success or Failure?; T.Forsberg Russia's new 'Monroe Doctrine'; M.Skak Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus after the Georgia Conflict; C.E.Ziegler Medvedev's 'Fourteen Points': Russia's Proposal for a New European Security Architecture; N.Lomagin From the 'New World Order' to 'Resetting Relations': Two Decades of U.S.-Russian Relations; R.E.Kanet Russia, NATO Enlargement, and 'Regions of Privileged Interests'; J.Berryman Revising the EU's European Neighbourhood Policy: The Eastern Partnership and Russia; J.DeBardeleben EU, Russia, Energy: Cooperation or Conflict?; S.Nies Conclusion; R.E.Kanet