Russia Between East and West: Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century (Cummings Center)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Part I: A Great Power in Transition Faces Globalization......Page 22
1 The New Russia and the New World Order......Page 23
INTRODUCTION: THE CONTEXT OF FOREIGN POLICY MAKING......Page 32
FOUR DIMENSIONS OF SECURITIZATION......Page 33
The primacy of security priorities and concepts......Page 34
The changing face of securitization......Page 37
Securitization and economization under Putin......Page 38
The securitization of foreign policy management......Page 40
RUSSIA AND EUROPE IN THE ERA OF SECURITIZATION......Page 42
NOTES......Page 45
3 The Transformation of Russia’s Military Doctrine in the Aftermath of Kosovo and Chechnya......Page 48
NEW LOOK AT DEFENCE REQUIREMENTS......Page 49
THE NEW WAR IN CHECHNYA......Page 50
NOTES......Page 52
4 After the Empire: Russia’s Emerging International Identity......Page 53
5 Putin’s Foreign Policy after 11 September: Radical or Revolutionary?......Page 58
WHAT KIND OF A BREAK IN POLICY?......Page 60
PRAGMATISM OR PARADIGM LEAP?......Page 64
HOW ROBUST IS POST-SEPTEMBER COOPERATION?......Page 68
NOTES......Page 73
Part II: Russia’s Road into Europe......Page 76
INTRODUCTION......Page 77
RUSSIA AND NATO......Page 79
RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION......Page 81
CONCLUSION......Page 86
NOTES......Page 88
7 Russia’s Place in European Defence......Page 91
RUSSIA’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE EU’S NEW DEFENCE ACTIVITIES......Page 93
EFFECT OF THE EU DEFENCE INITIATIVE ON RUSSIA......Page 94
EFFECT OF THE EU DEFENCE INITIATIVE ON Russia—EU RELATIONSHIP......Page 97
NOTES......Page 99
8 Russian Strategic Uncertainty in an Era of US Tactical Intrusiveness......Page 102
NOTES......Page 110
Part III: A Northern Passage......Page 112
INTRODUCTION......Page 113
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND THE NEW COOPERATIVE AGENDA......Page 114
WHO NEEDS ANOTHER NATO ENLARGEMENT CRISIS?......Page 116
A MAN FROM ST PETERSBURG......Page 118
‘THINKING ABOUT THE UNTHINKABLE’ UP NORTH......Page 119
CONCLUSIONS......Page 121
NOTES......Page 122
MILITARY-STRATEGIC INTERESTS AND NATO ENLARGEMENT......Page 125
POLITICAL INTERESTS......Page 127
ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN THE EU CONTEXT......Page 129
CONCLUSIONS......Page 133
NOTES......Page 134
Part IV: The Southern Tier and the Middle East......Page 137
INTRODUCTION......Page 138
HEGEMONY AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY......Page 139
RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE CIS......Page 141
NOTES......Page 143
SHIFTS IN RUSSIAN POLICY......Page 145
A NEW PUSH FOR MILITARY AND SECURITY COOPERATION?......Page 147
RUSSIAN SECURITY CONCERNS......Page 149
RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC CONCERNS......Page 151
CONCERNS WITH UZBEKISTAN AND LOCAL DYNAMICS......Page 153
DILEMMAS FOR RUSSIA’S SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA POLICY......Page 154
NOTES......Page 158
13 The Role of Islam in Russia’s Relations with Central Asia......Page 162
NOTES......Page 170
14 Russia in the Middle East: The Yeltsin Era and Beyond......Page 173
NOTES......Page 181
Part V: Rethinking the Far East......Page 183
15 Russia between Europe and Asia: Some Aspects of Russia’s Asian Policy......Page 184
INTRODUCTION......Page 187
THE NEW REALISM: A THIRD WAY BEYOND EAST AND WEST?......Page 188
Geo-ideology......Page 190
Towards a Russian third way and the transformation of the East......Page 191
Geopolitics......Page 194
The East as a counterhegemonic formation......Page 196
Representations of the East meet the real East......Page 197
The revenge of geopolitics......Page 201
Geo-economics......Page 202
CONCLUSION: ‘THIRDISM’ AND THE NEW EASTERNISM......Page 203
NOTES......Page 205
Notes on Contributors......Page 208
Index......Page 211