Russian Foreign Policy

List of Tables, Figures, and Map
Principal Vectors in Russian Foreign Policy
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Introduction
The Challenges Facing Russia
1. The Historical Legacy for Contemporary Russian Foreign Policy
The Soviet Legacy
2. Vectors and Sectors: The Russian Foreign Policy Mechanism
The Constitutional Structure: President and Prime Minister
Searching for a Role: The Legislature
The Position of the Foreign Ministry: One Actor Among Many
The Regional Governments
The State Companies and Private Business
The Nongovernmental Organizations
Russian National Security Decision Making
The Principal Vectors
3. The United States: The Main Enemy or Strategic Partner?
Legacy of the Cold War
Gorbachev: The Search for Condominium
The Yeltsin Era and "Tainted Transactions"
Putin-Bush and Obama-Medvedev: Soul Connections?
Some Enduring Obstacles
Institutionalizing the Relationship
The Balance Sheet
4. The Bear and the Dragon: China and the East Asia Vector
Triangular Relations: Opportunities and Challenges
The Dragon Turns to the Bear
The Bear Embraces the Dragon
The Bear Arms the Dragon
An Emerging Strategic Alliance?
Mending Fences: Russia-Japan Relations
Korea: Unparalleled Relations
Vietnam: Moscow's Toehold in Southeast Asia
Setting Its Eyes on Asia
5. The Eurasian Space
The Disintegration of the Soviet Union
The Eurasian Vision
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
The Frozen Conflicts
The Georgia-Russia War and Its Aftermath
The Ties That Bind
Securing Eurasia
A Eurasian Convergence Zone?
The Eurasian Union: USSR Lite?
Euraskepticism
Putin's Eurasian Dream
6. Eastern Europe: Comrades no More
The Second World War and the Creation of the Soviet Bloc
1989-1999: The Attempt to Preserve Eastern Europe
The Baltics and Beyond: NATO's Reach East
Baltic [In]Security
From Tragedy to Reconciliation? Developments in Russia-Poland Relations
Russian Impotence in the Balkans
Moscow's

Nikolas K. Gvosdev (PhD, St. Antony's College, Oxford University) is professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College, a senior editor at The National Interest, and a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, developments in the Middle East, and the role of religion in politics. The co-author of The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Political Islam, Gvosdev has published over 50 articles, columns, and essays on democratization and human rights; general foreign policy; energy policy; foreign policy of Russia and the Eurasian states; U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East; politics and culture of the Eurasian states; and religion and politics. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Review, Religion State and Society, The National Interest, Orbis, The Washington Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism, and World Policy Journal.

Christopher Marsh is a professor at the School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. Previously he taught international terrorism and irregular warfare at the US Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, and was a professor of political science at Baylor University for 12 years. He is the author of several books on Russian affairs and comparative Russian-Chinese politics, including Unparalleled Reforms (2006) and Religion and the State in Russia and China (2011). His current research focuses on Russian foreign and defense policy, particularly military cooperation between Russia and China, and religion and war.