Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 4
Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy: An Introduction......Page 5
NOTES......Page 12
SOVIET AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY: HOW THEY DIFFER......Page 14
HONEYMOON RELATIONS WITH THE WEST, 1991–96......Page 17
THE ‘POLICY OF ALTERNATIVES’, 1996–99......Page 18
PUTIN’S ‘GREAT RUSSIA’, 2000–SEPTEMBER 2001......Page 20
ANTI-TERROR ALLIANCE: AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER 2001......Page 26
NOTES......Page 29
‘NEW’ FOREIGN POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION......Page 31
KOSOVO......Page 32
11 SEPTEMBER 2001 AND WAR IN AFGHANISTAN......Page 34
CRITICS IN RUSSIA......Page 36
TERRORIST ACTS INSIDE THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION......Page 40
CONCLUSIONS......Page 42
NOTES......Page 45
NATO Enlargement and Eastern Opinion......Page 48
THE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT......Page 50
THE NATO DIMENSION......Page 53
A NEW RELATIONSHIP?......Page 56
APPENDIX......Page 57
NOTES......Page 58
FRAGILE HONEYMOON......Page 59
DETERIORATION......Page 61
A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP?......Page 64
THE KOSOVO CRISIS......Page 67
PHASED RESTORATION......Page 70
11 SEPTEMBER 2001......Page 71
CONCLUSION......Page 73
NOTES......Page 74
INTRODUCTION: THE EUROPEAN UNION, RUSSIA AND THE CONCEPT OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP......Page 78
BUILDING PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION: THE EU AND RUSSIA BEYOND THE COLD WAR......Page 79
TOWARDS GREATER PRAGMATISM IN THE EU-RUSSIAN RELATIONSHIP: A TALE OF TWO STRATEGIES......Page 82
THE SANTA DE FEIRA EUROPEAN COUNCIL SUMMIT 2000 AND THE EU’S WIDER EUROPE AGENDA......Page 87
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)......Page 88
Enlargement and Cross-Border Cooperation......Page 89
Economic Relations and the Energy Dialogue......Page 90
CONCLUSION: FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE EU-RUSSIAN RELATIONSHIP......Page 91
NOTES......Page 92
Exploitation of the ‘Islamic Factor’ in the Russo-Chechen Conflict Before and After 11 September 2001......Page 96
CONCLUSION......Page 104
NOTES......Page 106
The Russo-Chechen Information Warfare and 9/11: Al-Qaeda through the South Caucasus Looking Glass?......Page 111
9/11 AND RUSSIAN STRATEGIC REALIGNMENT?......Page 113
AL-QAEDA/CAUCASUS AND 9/11 INFORMATION BATTLES......Page 114
The Battle for ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Terrorists, ‘Double Standards’ and Internal Legitimacy......Page 115
Al-Qaeda/Chechen Collaboration and the Battle for External Legitimacy......Page 117
Al-Qaeda and Russia’s South Caucasus Policy......Page 119
Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian Instrumental Use of al-Qaeda......Page 122
CONCLUSIONS......Page 124
NOTES......Page 127
Russia’s Reluctant Retreat from the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia and the US after 11 September 2001......Page 131
STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCES OF THE ABKHAZ-GEORGIAN CONFLICT......Page 133
The US Impact......Page 136
Abkhaz Perceptions......Page 138
Russian Reactions to the US Military Presence......Page 143
CONCLUSION......Page 145
NOTES......Page 146
Russian Foreign Policy and Its Critics......Page 150
Cold War  .........Page 151
Russia’s Reluctant Retreat from the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia and the US after 11 September 2001......Page 152
About the Contributors......Page 154
Index......Page 156