Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

by Andreas Wenger (Editor), Robert Orttung (Editor), Jeronim Perovic (Editor)

Overview

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.

Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of Russian business, legal and illegal, within the context of Russia's domestic transition, this book considers how far Russia's foreign and security policy is shaped by business. It considers a wide range of issues, including energy, the arms trade, international drug flows, and human trafficking, and examines the impact of Russian business in Russia's dealings with Western and Eastern Europe, the Caspian, the Caucasus and the Far East.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415545693
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/29/2009
Series:	Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andreas Wenger is professor of international security policy and director of the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). His main research interests are in security and strategic studies and the history of international relations.

Jeronim Perovic is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He works on contemporary aspects of Russian foreign and security policy, energy politics in the Caspian, regionalism in Russia, and Soviet-Yugoslav relations.

Robert W. Orttung is associate research professor at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center of American University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. His interests are Russian regional politics, business-state relations, corruption, organised crime and terrorism.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Russian Business Power as a Source of Transnational Conflict and Cooperation 2. The Role of Business in Russian Foreign and Security Relations Part 2: Russian Energy: Regional Power and Dependency 3. Russian Energy Companies and the Enlarged European Union 4. Russian Energy Companies in the New Eastern Europe: The Cases of Ukraine and Belarus 5. Russian Energy Companies in the Caspian and Central Eurasian Region: Expanding Southward 6. Russia, Iraq, and Iran: Business, Politics, or Both? 7. Russian and Transnational Energy Companies: Conflict and Cooperation in Pacific Russia Part 3: Beyond Energy: Emerging Business Networks and Human Security 8. Russian Business, the Arms Trade, and Regional Security 9. Russian Banks and Russian Diplomacy: Occasionally Rather Embarrassing 10. The Drug Trade in Russia 11. Uncharted Territory: Russian Business Activity in Abkhazia and South Ossetia 12. Timber in the Russian Far East and Potential Transborder Conflict