Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.
Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of Russian business, legal and illegal, within the context of Russia's domestic transition, this book considers how far Russia's foreign and security policy is shaped by business. It considers a wide range of issues, including energy, the arms trade, international drug flows, and human trafficking, and examines the impact of Russian business in Russia's dealings with Western and Eastern Europe, the Caspian, the Caucasus and the Far East.
Author(s): Andreas Wenger, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic
Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 287
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Maps......Page 11
Tables......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Abbreviations......Page 18
Part I: Introduction......Page 20
1. Russian business power as a
source of transnational con.ict
and cooperation......Page 22
2. The role of business in Russian
foreign and security relations......Page 41
Part II: Russian energy: Regional power and dependency......Page 64
3. Russian energy companies and the enlarged European Union......Page 66
4. Russian energy companies in the new Eastern Europe: The cases of Ukraine and Belarus......Page 86
5. Russian energy companies in the
Caspian and Central Eurasian
region: Expanding southward......Page 107
6 Russia, Iraq, and Iran: Business, politics, or both?......Page 133
7. Russian and transnational energy companies: Conflict and cooperation in Pacific Russian......Page 152
Part III: Beyond energy: Emerging business networks and
human security......Page 174
8. Russian business, the arms trade, and regional security......Page 176
9. Russian banks and Russian diplomacy: Occasionally rather embarrassing......Page 194
10. The drug trade in Russia......Page 215
11. Uncharted territory: Russian business activity in Abkhazia
and South Ossetia......Page 236
12 Timber in the Russian Far East and potential transborder con.ict......Page 258
Index......Page 279
