In responding to the question as to whether Russia has re-emerged as a great power, the authors trace the major lines of foreign and security policy under Vladimir Putin. The authors argue that Putin and his advisors are committed to re-establishing Russia as a great power and that the existence of nuclear weapons and the revival of the Russian economy have provided the foundations for an expanded Russian role in global affairs.
Author(s): Roger E. Kanet
Series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 242
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Preface by General Editor......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Introduction: The Consolidation of Russia’s Role in World Affairs......Page 14
Part I: Russian Strategy Under Putin......Page 24
1 Russia’s Great Power Ambitions and Policy Under Putin......Page 26
2 Forming a New Security Identity Under Vladimir Putin......Page 44
3 Choices for Russia: Preserving Inherited Geopolitics Through Emergent Global and European Realities......Page 67
Part II: Russia, the CIS, and the World Beyond......Page 92
4 Russia’s Transdniestria Policy: Means, Ends and Great Power Trajectories......Page 94
5 Putin’s Attempts to Subjugate Georgia: From Sabre-Rattling to the Power of the Purse......Page 120
6 Governance and Diplomacy as Attributes of a Great Power: Russia and the Three Enclaves – Kaliningrad, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan......Page 137
7 Russia and China in the New Central Asia: The Security Agenda......Page 165
8 The US Challenge to Russian Influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus......Page 186
9 Russia, Iran and the Nuclear Question: The Putin Record......Page 208
Conclusion: Russia as a Re-Emerging Great Power......Page 235
E......Page 238
M......Page 239
R......Page 240
T......Page 241
Y......Page 242
