The new Russian foreign policy / Michael Mandelbaum, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mandelbaum, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.

Russia (Federation).

International relations.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

ix, 202 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Council on Foreign Relations : Distributed by Brookings Institution Press, [1998]

Summary:

The Russia that emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 is a new country, conducting a new foreign policy. This book surveys Russia's relations with the world since 1992 and assesses the future prospect for the foreign policy of Europe's largest country. Leon Aron examines the changing domestic basis of Russian policy toward other countries. Sherman Garnett traces Russian relations with the former republics of the Soviet Union that are now independent states to Russia's west, in particular Ukraine and the three Baltic countries: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Rajan Menon analyzes the rather different set of policies the new Russia has pursued toward its new neighbors to the south, in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Finally, Coit Blacker discusses the evolving Russian approach to the West.

Together these essays offer an authoritative summary and assessment of Russia's relations with its neighbors and with the rest of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Contents:

Introduction: Russian foreign policy in historical perspective / Michael Mandelbaum

The foreign policy doctrine of postcommunist Russia and its domestic context / Leon Aron

Europe's crossroads: Russia and the West in the new borderlands / Sherman W. Garnett

After empire: Russia and the southern "near abroad" / Rajan Menon

Russia and the West / Coit D. Blacker.

Notes:

"A Council on Foreign Relations books."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

008760213X

087609213X

OCLC:

38886664