The Foreign Policy of Russia / Edition 5

by Robert H Donaldson, Joseph L Nogee

Overview

Now fully updated, this widely respected text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from historical perspective. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russia's behavior in the world since tsarist times as well as the major sources of change and variability over the revolutionary period, wartime alliances and cold war, détente, the Soviet collapse, and the first post-communist decades. The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism. New coauthor Vidya Nadkarni strengthens the book's coverage of issues related to Asia. The basic framework used in the book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and identifies several factors (both internal and external) that condition Russian policy. The interpretations are original and based on a mix of primary and secondary sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765642011
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2014
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	437
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

List of Maps vii

Acronyms and Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 Introduction 3

2 The Tsarist Roots of Russia's Foreign Policy 17

3 Soviet Foreign Policy: From Revolution to Cold War 36

4 Soviet Foreign Policy: The Cold War 72

5 Domestic Factors in the Making of Russia's Foreign Policy 114

6 Russia and the States of the Former Soviet Union 158

7 Yeltsin and the West 231

8 Russia and the "Non-West" 282

9 Russian Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World: The Putin Era 362

Index 425

About the Authors 437

Editorial Reviews

"This new edition is vital in understanding Russia's foreign policy actions."

—J. R. Clardie, Cameron University

Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and graduate students.CHOICE

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