Table of Contents
Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction, Adeed Dawisha; Part 1 Russia; Chapter 2 Priorities of Russia’s Foreign Policy and the Way It Works, Nodari A. Simonia; Chapter 3 Structure, Institutions, and Process, Jeffrey Checkel; Chapter 4 Russia’s Far Eastern Policy in the 1990s, Andrew A. Bouchkin; Chapter 5 The Near Abroad, the West, and National Identity in Russian Foreign Policy, Jonathan Valdez; Part 2 The Western Newly Independent States; Chapter 6 Ukraine in the New Geopolitical Environment, Nikolai A. Kulinich; Chapter 7 Belarus’s Foreign Policy Priorities and the Decision-Making Process, Vyacheslau E. Paznyak; Chapter 8 Dimensions and Orientations in the Foreign and Security Policies of the Baltic States, Peeter Vares; Part 3 The Southern Newly Independent States; Chapter 9 The Sociopolitical Environment Conditioning the Foreign Policy of the Central Asian States, Kemal H. Karpat; Chapter 10 Regional and Global Powers and the International Relations of Central Asia, Mohiaddin Mesbahi; Chapter 11 Emerging Patterns in the International Relations of Central Asia, Mark N. Katz; Chapter 12 The Institutions and Conduct of the Foreign Policy of Postcommunist Kazakhstan, Oumirseric Kasenov; Chapter 13 The Institutions, Orientations, and Conduct of Foreign Policy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Leila Alieva; Chapter 14 Armenia’s Foreign Policy, Rouben Paul Adalian; Chapter 15 Conclusion, Karen Dawisha Appendix: Project Part icipants;