Russia Re-Emerging Great Power

by Kanet, Roger E.

• ISBN13: 9780230543041
• ISBN10: 0230543049
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is a comprehensive study of Russian foreign policy and the commitment to re-establishing Russia as a great power.

Author Biography

ROGER E. KANET is Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami, USA. Prior to that he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has edited more than twenty scholarly books on the Soviet Union/Russia and authored 200+ on Soviet/Russian and East/Central European foreign and domestic politics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Preface by General Editor	p. viii
Contributors	p. x
Introduction: The Consolidation of Russia's Role in World Affairs	p. 1
Russian Strategy Under Putin
Russia's Great Power Ambitions and Policy Under Putin	p. 13
Forming a New Security Identity Under Vladimir Putin	p. 31
Choices for Russia: Preserving Inherited Geopolitics Through Emergent Global and European Realities	p. 54
Russia, the CIS, and the World Beyond
Russia's Transdniestria Policy: Means, Ends and Great Power Trajectories	p. 81
Putin's Attempts to Subjugate Georgia: From Sabre-Rattling to the Power of the Purse	p. 107
Governance and Diplomacy as Attributes of a Great Power: Russia and the Three Enclaves - Kaliningrad, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan	p. 124
Russia and China in the New Central Asia: The Security Agenda	p. 152
The US Challenge to Russian Influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus	p. 173
Russia, Iran and the Nuclear Question: The Putin Record	p. 195
Conclusion: Russia as a Re-Emerging Great Power	p. 222
Index	p. 225
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