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The Foreign Policy Doctrine of Postcommunist Russia and its Domestic Context
By Leon Aron, Coit Blacker, Sherman Garnett, Rajan Menon
Edited by Michael Mandelbaum
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Dimensions: 0.64'' x 8.93'' x 6.10''
202 pages
Council on Foreign Relations Press
Publication Date: April 1998
Paperback
ISBN: 087609213X
Hardcover
ISBN: 008760213X
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.
Leon Aron is a resident scholar at AEI.
Table of Contents
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Russian Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective
The Foreign Policy Doctrine of Postcommunist Russia and Its Domestic Context
Europe's Crossroads: Russia and the West in the New Borderlands
After Empire: Russia and the Southern "Near Abroad"
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