The foreign policy of Russia : changing systems, enduring interests
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The foreign policy of Russia : changing systems, enduring interests
M.E. Sharpe, 2014
Fifth edition
- hardcover : alk.
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- The tsarist roots of Russia's foreign policy
- Soviet foreign policy from revolution to Cold War
- Soviet foreign policy: the Cold War
- Domestic factors in the making of Russia's foreign policy
- Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union
- Yeltsin and the West
- Russia and the "non-West"
- Russian foreign policy in a multipolar world: the Putin era
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Now fully updated, this widely respected text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from historical perspective. 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.perspective. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russias 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, dtente, 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 books 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.
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- its history of military and political subjugation to China
- economic, social, and commercial conditions
- demography, public health, and ecology
- and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.
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