Russia and its Near Neighbours

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-35123-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Russia has recently re-emerged as the dominant political, economic and military actor in former Soviet nations. Kanet and Freire bring together a stellar cast of contributors to consider Russia's recent return as a major regional and international actor and its likely future policy toward its neighbours.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freire, M.

Kanet, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Russia and its Near Neighbours; M.R.Freire & R.E.Kanet PART I: DETERMINANTS OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY Russia's Vital and Exclusive National Interests in the Near Abroad; R.Laenen Domestic Influences on Russian Foreign Policy: Status, Interests and Ressentiment; H.Smith Nationalist Grievance and Russian Foreign Policy? The Case of Georgia; L.March The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War: Which Side Went First?; J.B.Dunlop PART II: RUSSIA AND THE CIS Whose Near Abroad? Dilemmas in Russia's Declared Sphere of Privileged Interests; J.Russell Russia's European Security Treaty and the Kyrgyz Crisis; G.Herd Central Asia in Russian and US Foreign Policy: Between Continuity and 'Reset'; L.Simão Russia's Foreign Policy towards Central Asia; D.Digol PART III: ENERGY IN RUSSIAN-CIS RELATIONS Strategic Security and Russian Resource Diplomacy; M.Sussex Russian Resource Politics toward the CIS Countries under Medvedev; B.Nygren Russia's Energy Policies in Eurasia: Empowerment or Entrapment?; M.R.Freire Russian Energy Policy in the South Caucasus; L.Arakelyan & R.E.Kanet Conclusion; M.R.Freire & R.E.Kanet

Über Autor(innen)

LILIA A. ARAKELYAN Doctoral Student and Research Assistant, Department of International Studies, University of Miami, USA
DIANA DIGOL Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Germany
JOHN DUNLOP Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA
GRAEME P. HERD Head of the International Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland and Co-Director of the International Training Course in Security Policy
RIA LAENEN Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International and European Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium
LUKE MARCH Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Edinburgh, UK
BERTIL NYGREN Associate Professor of Political Science, Swedish National Defence College and at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden
JOHN RUSSELL Professor of Russian and Security Studies, School of Social and International Studies, University of Bradford, UK

LICÍNIA SIMÃO teaches at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal
HANNA SMITH Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
MATTHEW SUSSEX Senior Lecturer, School of Government, University of Tasmania, Australia