The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests - Rilegato

Donaldson, Robert H; Nogee, Joseph L

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ISBN 10: 0765622807 ISBN 13: 9780765622808

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2009

Riassunto

Now fully updated, this widely respected text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from historical perspective. The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism.perspective. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russias behavior in the world since tsarist times as well as the major sources of change and variability over the revolutionary period, wartime alliances and cold war, dtente, the Soviet collapse, and the first post-communist decades. The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism. New coauthor Vidya Nadkarni strengthens the books coverage of issues related to Asia. The basic framework used in the book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and identifies several factors (both internal and external) that condition Russian policy. The interpretations are original and based on a mix of primary and secondary sources.

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Contenuti

List of Maps; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Tsarist Roots of Russia's Foreign Policy; 3. Soviet Foreign Policy: From Revolution to Cold War; 4. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Cold War; 5. Domestic Factors in the Making of Russia's Foreign Policy; 6. Russia and the States of the Former Soviet Union; 7. Russia and the West in the 1990s; 8. Russia and the "Non-West"; 9. Putin's Russia in the Age of Global Terror; Notes; Index; About the Authors.

Product Description

Book by Robert H Donaldson Joseph L Nogee

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0765622807
• ISBN 13: 9780765622808
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile