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SESS3102: Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy - BA
(12 items)
One course unit, intended for final-year undergraduates
This course deals with Russian foreign policy from 1917 to the present day. The aim of the
course is to offer the student a basic grounding in the aims and results of Russian foreign
policy, in the context of changes within Russia and in international politics. Particular
attention will be given to the role of Gorbachev's 'new thinking', and to the foreign policy
of the Russian Federation as it has developed under El'tsin, Putin and Medvedev. The
course also aims to develop the student's skills in assimilating a substantial literature, to
be demonstrated through essays and seminars. There are no prerequisites, but it is
anticipated that students will have some background in twentieth-century Russian or
European government or history.
Aims: (1 items)
To describe and analyse the aims, policy-making processes and results of the foreign
policy of the Soviet government from 1917 to 1991 and of the Russian Federation since
1991 To analyse the roles of history, ideology, nationalism, geopolitics and economics in
the making of foreign policy over this period To contribute towards the development of the
intellectual, analytical and critical powers of the student.
Objectives: By the end of the course, you will have acquired: (1 items)
An understanding of international relations in the twentieth century and up to the present
The capacity to analyse the impact of leadership, regime and ideological change on Soviet
and Russian foreign policy Improved abilities in data assimilation, logical argument and
oral and written communication Knowledge to further a career connected with Russia,
Eastern Europe or international politics
Teaching & Learning Methods:
(1 items)
20 lectures, 10 seminars
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Assessment: (1 items)
Coursework: Two essays which must be completed by the set deadline but which do not
normally count towards the assessment
Examination: One three-hour unseen written examination.
Reading:
(2 items)
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Suggested for student purchase
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential
List of topics (1 items)
List of topics
1. The study of Russian foreign policy.
2. The foreign policy of Tsarist Russia
Soviet foreign policy (1917-1991)
3. The Bolshevik revolution. 'Socialism in one country'. The rise of fascism.
4. The Great Patriotic War. The Cold War (to 1975)
5. From détente to Cold War II (1975-1985)
6. Gorbachev and the West (1985-1991)
7. Eastern Europe (1945-1991)
8. The role of ideology in Soviet foreign policy
The foreign policy of the Russian Federation (1991-2013) 9. The making of Russian foreign policy
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10. Concepts and doctrines
11. The Commonwealth of Independent States
12. Russia and Ukraine
13. Russia's influence in Transcaucasia and Central Asia
14. NATO enlargement and Russia
15. EU enlargement and Russia
16. Russia's co-operation with the West in the 'war on terror'
17. Russia and China
18. Russia and the Middle East.
19. The foreign policy of Putin and Medvedev: gains and losses
20. Conclusion. From Soviet to Russian foreign policy.
Assessment and essays for students other than affiliate students (3
items)
Assessment (1 items)
Assessment will normally be by one 3-hour unseen examination.
Essays (1 items)
Two essays, each of 1500-2000 words (including footnotes and endnotes but excluding
bibliography), are required. Footnotes or endnotes should specify the source of all
quotations and statistics, and a bibliography should list all the sources consulted. These
essays will not normally contribute towards the formal assessment.
Essays are to be handed to your tutorial group tutor, Dmitri Ponomarev or myself.
Deadlines:
1st essay: Friday 2 December
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2nd essay: Friday 24 February
Assessment for affiliate students (1 items)
Affiliate students who are present for the whole academic year will be assessed in the
same way as UCL/University of London degree students, i.e. by one 3-hour unseen
examination. They will write essays as prescribed for UCL/University of London students,
and hand them in to Dmitri Ponomarev or myself, as above.
Assessment of affiliate students who are present for one term only will be based on two
essays, each of 2,500 words (including footnotes and endnotes but excluding
bibliography). Footnotes or endnotes should specify the source of all quotations and
statistics, and a bibliography should list all the sources consulted. The first essay should be
submitted to the Student Administration Office, Room 341, by the Friday in the week after
Reading Week. The second essay should be submitted before the end of the term (i.e., the
end of Term 1 or Term 2, depending on when the course is taken).
Pete Duncan
UCL SSEES (16 Taviton Street, 4th floor, Room 422). Tel 020 7679 8762
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Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy - BA - Main books
(37 items)
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Suggested for student purchase | Buy and read.
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | Provides a constructivist analysis and should certainly be read.
Possible buy.
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Out of print.
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Possible buy.
The rise and fall of the Soviet empire - Pearson, Raymond, 2002
Book | Possible buy.
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Russia and the world 1917-1991 - Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline, c1998
Book | Possible buy.
Russian foreign policy in the Post-Soviet era: Reality, illusion and mythmaking - Lo, Bobo,
2002
Book
Vladimir Putin and the evolution of Russian foreign policy - Lo, Bobo, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, c2003
Book | Possible buy.
Putin's Russia and the enlarged Europe - Allison, Roy, Light, Margot, White, Stephen, Royal
Institute of International Affairs, 2006
Book | Possible buy.
Russian foreign policy in the twenty-first century and the shadow of the past - Legvold,
Robert, c2007
Book
The strongman: Vladimir Putin and the struggle for Russia - Roxburgh, Angus, 2011
Book
Russia's foreign security policy in the 21st century: Putin, Medvedev and beyond - Haas,
M. de, c2010
Book
Russian foreign policy in the 21st century - Kanet, Roger E., 2010
Book
Developments in Russian politics - White, Stephen, Sakwa, Richard, Hale, Henry E., 2009
Book | esp M Light, ‘Russian Foreign Policy’, ch. 13
Authoritarian backlash: Russian resistance to democratization in the former Soviet Union Ambrosio, Thomas, 2009
Book
Challenging America's global preeminence: Russia's quest for multipolarity - Ambrosio,
Thomas, c2005
Book
Russia and the Balkans: foreign policy from Yeltsin to Putin - Headley, James, 2008
Book
The Soviet theory of international relations - Light, Margot, 1988
Book | Out of print.
Soviet foreign policy since World War II - Nogee, Joseph L., Donaldson, Robert H., 1992
Book | Out of print.
Soviet foreign policy since World War II: imperial and global - Rubinstein, Alvin Z., c1992
Book | Out of print - 3rd edn 1989, 4th edn 1992.
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From messianism to collapse: Soviet foreign policy, 1917-1991 - MacKenzie, David, c1994
Book
Russia's Cold War: from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall - Haslam, Jonathan,
c2011
Book
Expansion and coexistence: Soviet foreign policy, 1917-73 - Ulam, Adam Bruno, 1974
Book
Dangerous relations: the Soviet Union in world politics, 1970-1982 - Ulam, Adam Bruno,
1983
Book
The End of the outer empire: Soviet-East European relations in transition, 1985-90 Pravda, Alex, 1992
Book
Russian messianism: third Rome, holy revolution, communism and after - Duncan, Peter J.
S., 2000
Book
Russian foreign policy beyond Putin - Rumer, Eugene B., 2007
Book
Realignments in Russian foreign policy - Fawn, Rick, 2003
Book
The new Russian foreign policy - Mandelbaum, Michael, Council on Foreign Relations,
c1998
Book
Russia between East and West: Russian foreign policy on the threshold of the twenty-first
century - Gorodetsky, Gabriel, 2003
Book
Security dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia - Bluth, Christoph, Allison, Roy, Russia and
Eurasia Programme (Royal Institute of International Affairs), 1998
Book
Internal factors in Russian foreign policy - Malcolm, Neil, 1996
Book
Engaging with Russia: the next phase - Lyne, Roderic, Watanabe, Kōji, Talbott, Strobe,
2006
Book
The new Cold War: how the Kremlin menaces both Russia and the West - Lucas, Edward,
2008
Book | A hawkish view
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The rebuilding of Greater Russia: Putin's foreign policy towards the CIS countries - Nygren,
Bertil, 2008
Book
Russia: re-emerging great power - Kanet, Roger E., 2007
Book
Russian foreign policy in the 21st century - Kanet, Roger E., 2010
Book
Journals for the study of Russian Politics and Russian Foreign Policy (48
items)
The SSEES library has an unparalleled wealth of journals, but the following are among the
most useful in English:
Specialist area journals (14 items)
Communist and post-communist studies
Journal | (formerly Studies in Comparative Communism)
Post-communist economies - Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies
Journal | (formerly Communist Economies and Economics of Transition)
Europe-Asia studies - University of Glasgow
Journal | (formerly Soviet Studies)
East European politics
Journal | (formerly Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics)
The Journal of Slavic military studies
Journal
Post-Soviet affairs - Joint Committee on Soviet Studies (U.S.), Social Science Research
Council (U.S.)
Journal | (formerly Soviet Economy)
Problems of post-communism
Journal | (formerly Problems of Communism)
Religion, state & society: the Keston journal - Keston College
Journal
Russia on Russia - Centre for Post-Collectivist Studies, Social Market Foundation, 2000Journal
Russia in Global Affairs
Document | (also at www.globalaffairs.ru )
Slavic review - American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
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The Slavonic and East European review - Modern Humanities Research Association,
University of London
Journal
Slovo
Document
Transitions Online
Document | Previously RFE/RL Research Report; succeeded by Transition, then
Transitions.
General journals (6 items)
International affairs: journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs - Royal Institute of
International Affairs
Journal
Survival - Institute for Strategic Studies (London, England), International Institute for
Strategic Studies
Journal
Foreign affairs - Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, Coolidge, Archibald Cary, Council on Foreign
Relations
Journal
Foreign policy - National Affairs, inc, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Journal
Nationalities papers - Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and
ex-USSR., Association for the Study of Nationalities, Association for the Study of the
Nationalities (USSR and East Europe)
Journal
Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and
Nationalism - Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
Journal
Translation sources (2 items)
The Current digest of the Russian press - 2011Journal | (formerly Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press)
Russian politics and law
Journal
Electronic journals (8 items)
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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Newsline Archive
Webpage | from January 2, 1995, to May 9, 2008
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty RFE/RL Caucasus Report
Webpage | To subscribe go to http://www.rferl.org/subscribe
Russia - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty RFE/RL Russia Report
Webpage | To subscribe go to http://www.rferl.org/subscribe
Russian Regional Report
Webpage | Discontinued 2006.
The Jamestown Foundation: Eurasia Daily Monitor
Webpage
Russian and Eurasian Security Network (RES) - News and Analysis - Russian Analytical
Digest
Webpage
Russian and Eurasian Security Network (RES) - News and Analysis - Caucasus Analytical
Digest
Webpage
Transitions Online
Webpage
Useful websites (16 items)
Welcome to the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Website
BBC - Homepage
Website
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Website
RIA-Novosti
Website
Official Russia (all branches of government)
Website
Russian Government
Webpage
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER OF THE RUSSIAN
FEDERATION VLADIMIR PUTIN
Webpage
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Webpage
Security Council
Website
Russian Presidency
Website
Gazprom
Website
EastWest Institute
Website
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Website
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Website
Wilson Center
Website
Welcome to East View - Basic Search
Webpage
PJSD 21.7.11
Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy - BA - Topic sheets (178 items)
One course unit
1.The study of Russian foreign policy(2 items)
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch 1.
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | ch 1.
2. The foreign policy of Tsarist Russia (3 items)
Why did Muscovy and then the Russian Empire expand?
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What was the impact of military defeat on internal development in Tsarist Russia?
What was the role of ideology in Tsarist foreign policy?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch 2.
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | ch 1.
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY (1917-1991)
3. The Bolshevik revolution. ‘Socialism in One Country’. The rise of
fascism. (6 items)
What was the Bolshevik conception of foreign policy in 1917? Why was the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk important?
What was the role of the Communist International (1919-1943)? What was the impact of
'Socialism in One Country' on the Comintern and on Soviet foreign policy?
How did the USSR respond to the rise of fascism? Why did Stalin agree to the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | ch 2, 265-72.
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch 3.
The rise and fall of the Soviet empire - Pearson, Raymond, 2002
Book | Recommended | ch 1.
The Soviet theory of international relations - Light, Margot, 1988
Book | Recommended | chs 1 & 2.
C Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, chs 1-3. D MacKenzie, From Messianism to
Collapse, chs 1-7. P Shearman, 'Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991', in Russian Foreign Policy
since 1990, ed Shearman, ch 1. Adam B Ulam, Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign
Policy 1917-73 (2nd edn 1974), to p 378. Seweryn Bialer, The Soviet Paradox: External
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Expansion, Internal Decline (1986), chs 9 & 13. A Rubinstein, Soviet Foreign Policy since
World War II, chs 1-3. J Nogee & R Donaldson, Soviet Foreign Policy since World War Two,
chs 2 & 4. Leonard Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2nd edn 1970).
George F Kennan, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (1961). Donald W
Treadgold, Twentieth-Century Russia (8th edn 1995). E H Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution
1917-1923, Vol III; Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926, Vol III; Foundations of a Planned
Economy, 1926-1929, Vol III; or as summarized in his The Russian Revolution from Lenin
to Stalin (1917-1929), (1980) pbk, chs 2, 5 (pp 44 ff), 9, 10, 18. _____, The Twilight of
Comintern, 1930-1935 (1982). Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War: From the October
Revolution to the Fall of the Wall. (2011) R.IX.e HAS, _____, The Soviet Union and the
Struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933-39 (1984) D W Benn, 'Russian Historians
Defend the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact', International Affairs, 87, 3, May 2011, 709-15.
Geoffrey Roberts, The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War:
Russo-German Relations and the Road to War, 1933-1941 (1995) pbk. Gabriel Gorodetsky,
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. Yale UP 2000. The Soviet Union
and the Outbreak of War, 1939-1941, ed G Gorodetsky et al. Cass 2001 pbk. G Roberts,
'Stalin and the Grand Alliance: Public Discourse, Private Dialogues and the Direction of
Soviet Foreign Policy, 1941-1947', Slovo, 13, 2001, pp 1-15.
4. The Great Patriotic War. The Cold War (to 1975) (6 items)
What were Stalin's foreign policy aims after the defeat of Nazi Germany? Why did the Cold
War develop after 1945?
Did Khrushchev (1953-1964) make any real changes in foreign policy?
The early 1970s saw a series of East-West agreements which sought to normalize the
situation in Europe: the Soviet-FRG and Polish-FRG treaties of 1970, the Berlin
Quadripartite agreement and the GDR-FRG agreement of 1971, the Czechoslovak-FRG
treaty of 1973 and the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
(CSCE), Helsinki, 1975. At the superpower level, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
(SALT-1) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) were signed in 1972. In 1973
bloc-to-bloc negotiations started on conventional disarmament - the Mutual and Balanced
Force Reduction talks.
Why did Brezhnev (1964-1982) and Kosygin pursue a policy of détente, and what did that
mean?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | pp. 59-91
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Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | chs 3 & 4, 161-79, 272-82, 287-95.
McKenzie, chs 8-11. Light, ch 3. P Shearman, 'Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991', in Russian
Foreign Policy since 1990, ed Shearman, ch 1. C Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, chs
4-7.
Soviet foreign policy since World War II - Nogee, Joseph L., Donaldson, Robert H., 1992
Book | Recommended | chs 4-5 & 7-8.
Jonathan Steele, World Power or The Limits of Soviet Power (1985), parts of chs 1-3. Adam
Ulam, Expansion or Coexistence?, pp 378-end, and Dangerous Relations: The Soviet Union
in World Politics, 1970-1982 (1983), chs 1-3 (ch 1 of the latter is a concise summary of the
1945-1970 period). S Bialer, Soviet Paradox, chs 1-4, 10. Martin Walker, The Cold War
(1994). Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Stalin's Cold War: Soviet Strategies in Europe 1943-1956
(1995). _____, The Origins of the Cold War (2007) Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War:
From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall. 2011 R.IX.e HAS Reviewing the Cold
War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory, ed O Westad. Cass 2000 pbk. David Holloway, The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (2nd edn 1984). Harry Hanak, Soviet Foreign Policy
since the Death of Stalin (1972). Vladislav Zubok & Constantine Pleshakov, Inside the
Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev (1996). The Cambridge history of the Cold
War, ed M Leffler & O Westad.: Cambridge University Press, 2010.. 3 vols Misc.IX.e CAM
Aleksandr Fursenko & Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Kennedy and
the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958-1964 (1997). Rubinstein, Soviet Foreign Policy…, ch 4
onwards. Leonard Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2nd edn 1970).
Donald W Treadgold, Twentieth-Century Russia (8th edn 1995).
5. Eastern Europe, 1945-75 (5 items)
What were Soviet policy aims in Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1975?
Why did the USSR invade Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968?
Apart from the use of force, how else did the Soviet leaders seek to control the bloc up to
1975?
The rise and fall of the Soviet empire - Pearson, Raymond, 2002
Book | Recommended | chs 2,3, 4
MacKenzie, chs 8-11.
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The Soviet theory of international relations - Light, Margot, 1988
Book | Recommended | ch 7.
P Shearman, 'Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991', in Russian Foreign Policy since 1990, ed
Shearman, ch 1. C Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, chs 4-7. Nogee & Donaldson, chs
4-5 & 7-8. Jonathan Steele, World Power or The Limits of Soviet Power (1985), parts of chs
1-3. Adam Ulam, Expansion or Coexistence?, pp 378-end, and Dangerous Relations: The
Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982 (1983), chs 1-3 (ch 1 of the latter is a concise
summary of the 1945-1970 period). S Bialer, Soviet Paradox, chs 1-4, 10. Harry Hanak,
Soviet Foreign Policy since the Death of Stalin (1972). Rubinstein, Soviet Foreign Policy..,
ch 4 onwards. Leonard Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2nd edn
1970). Donald W Treadgold, Twentieth-Century Russia (8th edn 1995). Zbigniew K
Brzezinski, The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict (rev edn 1967). Matthew J Ouimet, The Rise
and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy (2003). C Gati, Hungary and the
Soviet Bloc (1986) J Granville, 'To Invade or not to Invade? A New Look at Gomulka, Nagy
and Soviet Foreign Policy in 1956', Canadian Slavonic Papers, 43, 4, Dec 2001, 437-74.
6. From détente to Cold War II, 1975-1985 (7 items)
Why did détente fade away after 1975? Consider European security, human rights, the
Third World, Afghanistan and Poland.
What impact did Andropov (Nov 1982 - Feb 1984) and Chernenko (Feb 1984-Mar 1985)
have on Soviet foreign policy?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | pp 84-95
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | pp 174-76, chs 10 & 11, and pp 287-95
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Recommended | chs 1 & 2
C Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, chs 4-7. Nogee & Donaldson, chs 8-9. Light, ch 10.
MacKenzie, chs 12-13. Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution
to the Fall of the Wall. 2011 R.IX.e HAS P Shearman, 'Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991', in
Russian Foreign Policy since 1990, ed Shearman, ch 1. M Webber, The International Politics
of Russia and the Successor States, chs 1-2. Rubinstein, relevant parts from ch 4 onwards.
J Steele, World Power or The Limits of Soviet Power.
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Afgantsy: the Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 - Braithwaite, Rodric, 2011
Book | Recommended
H Gelman, 'Rise and Fall of Détente', Problems of Communism, 34, 2, Mar-Apr 1985,
51-72. Raymond L Garthoff, Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from
Nixon to Reagan (1985) The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations during the Carter
Years, ed O A Westad (1997) Ulam, Dangerous Relations, chs 4-6.
7. Gorbachev and the West, 1985-1991 (8 items)
How did Gorbachev's perestroika affect policy towards Western Europe and the USA?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | pp 91-106
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | pp 91-8, ch 8, 172-89, 295-302
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Recommended | chs 1 & 2
C Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, chs 4-7. Nogee & Donaldson, ch 10. Light, ch 10.
MacKenzie, chs 12-13. A Adamishin, 'About the Past that still Continues', Russia in Global
Affairs, 6, 2, Apr-Jun 2008, 60-77 (Russian view on end of Cold War) P Shearman, 'Soviet
Foreign Policy 1917-1991', in Russian Foreign Policy since 1990, ed Shearman, ch 1. M
Webber, The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States, chs 1-2. Rubinstein,
relevant parts from ch 4 onwards. Perestroika: Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policies, ed T
Hasegawa & A Pravda (1990). Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor (1996), ch 7.
Memoirs - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1997
Book | Recommended
Gorbachev's gamble: Soviet foreign policy and the end of the Cold War - Grachev, A. S.,
c2008
Book | Recommended
Anatoly S Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev: Notes from a Diary (2000). V
Aspaturian, 'Farewell to Soviet Foreign Policy', Problems of Communism, 40, 6, Nov-Dec
1991, 53-62. Mark Galeotti, The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and
Post-Soviet Russia (1995), chs 3-6. S Bialer, Soviet Paradox, chs 14-18. Russia and Europe:
An End to Confrontation? ed N Malcolm (1993). Gorbachev and Europe, ed V Harle & J
Iivonen (1990). Soviet-British Relations since the 1970s, ed A Pravda & P Duncan (1990),
esp ch by M Light and Conclusion. Curtis Keeble, Britain, the Soviet Union and Russia
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(2000) Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the
Wall. 2011 R.IX.e HAS David E. Hoffman, The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the
Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race. London: Icon 2011. R.IX.e.9 HOF Duncan, Russian
Messianism, ch 9.
7. Eastern Europe 1945-1991 (11 items)
What were Soviet policy aims in Eastern Europe from 1945?
Why did the USSR invade Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968?
Apart from the use of force, how else did the Soviet leaders seek to control the bloc?
What were the Soviet aims in the CSCE process in Eastern Europe after 1975? Why did the
USSR not invade Poland in 1980-1981?
How did glasnost, perestroika and the 'common European house' affect Eastern Europe?
From 'Brezhnev doctrine' to 'Sinatra doctrine': why did Gorbachev allow the changes in
Eastern Europe which began in 1989? Why did Gorbachev oppose and then accept German
unification?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | pp.68-80, 84-91. 95-100
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | pp 50-90, 161-79, 272-82.
The rise and fall of the Soviet empire - Pearson, Raymond, 2002
Book | Recommended | chs 2-6
Gorbachev and German Unification - H. Adomeit, 1990
Article | Recommended
OR
Gorbachev, German Unification and the Collapse of Empire - H. Adomeit, 1994
Article | Recommended
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The Soviet theory of international relations - Light, Margot, 1988
Book | Recommended | ch 7 and pp 305-8.
Rubinstein, Soviet Foreign Policy, chs 4-5.
Nogee & Donaldson, Soviet Foreign Policy, chs 4-5, 7-8 & 10, parts.
MacKenzie, chs 8-11.
New M Kramer, 'The Demise of the Soviet Bloc', Europe-Asia Studies, 63, 9, November
2011, 1535-90.
C Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, chs 4-7.
Adam Ulam, Expansion or Coexistence?, pp 378-end, and Dangerous Relations: The Soviet
Union in World Politics, 1970-1982 (1983), chs 1-3 (ch 1 of the latter is a concise summary
of the 1945-1970 period).
Harry Hanak, Soviet Foreign Policy since the Death of Stalin (1972).
Zbigniew K Brzezinski, The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict (rev edn 1967).
Matthew J Ouimet, The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy
(2003).
C Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (1986)
J Granville, 'To Invade or not to Invade? A New Look at Gomulka, Nagy and Soviet Foreign
Policy in 1956', Canadian Slavonic Papers, 43, 4, Dec 2001, 437-74.
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J F Brown, Eastern Europe under Communist Rule (1988), esp ch 2.
_____, Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe (1991), esp ch 2. Karen Dawisha, Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform (2nd edn 1990).
J Steele, Limits of Soviet Power or World Power, parts of chs 1-3 & ch 6.
S Bialer, Soviet Paradox, chs 1-4, 10-11.
New Sarah B. Snyder, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational
History of the Helsinki Network (2011).. Misc.XIV.3 SNY
Russia and Europe: An End to Confrontation? ed N Malcolm (1993).
Michael Sodaro, Moscow, Germany and the West: From Khrushchev to Gorbachev (1990)
Avril Pittman, From Ostpolitik to Reunification: West German-Soviet Political Relations
since 1974 (1992) .
Angela Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse and the New
Europe (Princeton UP 1999) .
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The End of the outer empire: Soviet-East European relations in transition, 1985-90 Pravda, Alex, 1992
Book | Recommended
Memoirs - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1997
Book | Recommended | parts on Eastern Europe
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9. The role of ideology in Soviet foreign policy (11 items)
How did official Marxism-Leninism view international relations in the Brezhnev era? Did
ideology matter in Soviet foreign policy?
What did Gorbachev mean by the 'new political thinking' in foreign policy? Was it
compatible with Marxism-Leninism? Did Gorbachev succeed in 'de-ideologizing' Soviet
foreign policy?
Soviet foreign policy since World War II - Nogee, Joseph L., Donaldson, Robert H., 1992
Book | Essential | chs 2 and 10.
OR, if not available, Donaldson & Nogee. See below.
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | pp 37-43, 91-103
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | chs 1 & 2
The Soviet theory of international relations - Light, Margot, 1988
Book | Recommended | esp ch 10 and Conclusion
Rubinstein, ch 1. MacKenzie, ch 1.
De-Stalinization and Soviet Foreign Policy: The Roots of “New Thinking" - N. Malcolm
Chapter | Recommended
Soviet Foreign Policy: In Search of Critical Thinking - M. Mendras
Chapter | Recommended
P Shearman, 'New Political Thinking Reassessed', Review of International Studies, 19, 2,
Apr 1993, 139-58 (in SHL). Stephen Shenfield, The Nuclear Predicament (1987). Mikhail S
Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World (1987), Pt 2.
Memoirs - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1997
Book | Recommended | esp Pt III
Eduard A Shevardnadze, The Future Belongs to Freedom (1991). K Dawisha, ch in Soviet
Strategy toward Western Europe, ed E Moreton & G Segal (1984). S Bialer, '" New
Thinking" and Soviet Foreign Policy', Survival, 30, 4, Jul-Aug 1988, 291-309 (in SHL). D
Larson & A Shevchenko, 'Shortcut to Greatness: The New Thinking and the Revolution in
Soviet Foreign Policy', International Organization, 57, 1, Winter 2003, 77-109 (in SHL) A
Lynch, The Soviet Study of International Relations (1987).
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THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, 1991-2013
10. The making of Russian foreign policy (17 items)
What is the role (if any) of the following in the making of foreign policy in the Russian
Federation since 1991: the President and his advisers; the Security Council; the
Chairperson of the Government (Prime Minister); the Minister and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MID); the Minister and Ministry of Defence; the Federal Security Service (FSB); the
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR); the Federal Assembly; economic lobbies; institutes of
the Russian Academy of Sciences and other think-tanks; The Russian Orthodox Church;
public opinion?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | chs 5 & 9
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | chs 5, 7, 14
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Recommended | ch 2
Vladimir Putin and the evolution of Russian foreign policy - Lo, Bobo, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, c2003
Book | Recommended | esp ch 3
Russian foreign policy in the Post-Soviet era: Reality, illusion and mythmaking - Lo, Bobo,
2002
Book | Recommended
Internal factors in Russian foreign policy - Malcolm, Neil, 1996
Book | Recommended | esp ch by Malcolm on decision-making
N Malcolm, 'Russian Foreign Policy Decision-Making', in Russian Foreign Policy since 1990,
ed Shearman, ch 2 (as an alternative to his ch in Malcolm et al., Internal Factors in Russian
Foreign Policy, above). _____ & A Pravda, 'Democratization and Russian Foreign Policy',
International Affairs (London), 72, 3, July 1996. Margot Light, 'Russian Foreign Policy', in
Developments in Russian Politics 7, ed S White, R Sakwa & H Hale, pbk, ch 13.
The Realism of Russia's Foreign Policy - Allen C. Lynch, 2001-01
Article | Recommended
The Domestic Management of Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy - S. White
Chapter | Recommended | ch 2
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Vladimir Putin and Russian statecraft - Lynch, Allen, c2011
Book
The strongman: Vladimir Putin and the struggle for Russia - Roxburgh, Angus, 2011
Book
Mafia state - Harding, Luke, 2011
Book
D Herspring & P Rutland, 'Putin and Russian Foreign Policy', in Putin's Russia: Past
Imperfect, Future Uncertain, ed D Herspring (Rowman & Littlefield 2003 pbk), ch 11. Janina
Šleivyte, Russia's European agenda and the Baltic States (2010), chs 2 & 3. R.IX.f.3 SLE
Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia, ed R Allison & C Bluth (1998), Pt I. The Making of
Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, ed A Dawisha & K Dawisha (1995),
intro ( A Dawisha), ch 2 (Simonia) & ch 3 (Checkel) N Rabotiazhev & E Solov'ev, 'From
Lenin to Danilevsky: The Changing Geopolitical Views of the Communist Party of the
Russian Federation', Russian Politics and Law, 46, 3, May-June 2008, 27-42 R Orttung, 'The
Role of Business in Russian Foreign and Security Relations', in Russian Business Power:
The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations ed A Wenger, J Perovic & R
Orttung (2006), pp 22-44 'Russian Public Relations Activities and Soft Power', Russian
Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch no. 81, 16 June 2010. R Stowe, 'Foreign Policy
Preferences of the New Russian Business Elite', Problems of Post-Communism, 48, 3,
May-Jun 2001, 49-58. P Shearman, 'The Sources of Russian Conduct: Understanding
Russian Foreign Policy', Review of International Studies, 27, 2, April 2001, 249-63 (in SHL).
Vladimir Lukin, 'Russian Foreign Policy: Putin's First Year', Russia on Russia, Issue 5, pp
50-56.
Russian crossroads: toward the new millennium - Primakov, E. M., 2004
Book | Recommended
A world challenged: fighting terrorism in the twenty-first century - Primakov, E. M., 2004
Book | Recommended | for the view of one who worked with Gorbachev, El’tsin and
Putin.
William Zimmerman, The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass
Perspectives, 1993-2000 (2002) pbk Olga Oliker et al.., Russian foreign policy: sources and
implications (2009). R.IX.f.3 RUS 'Russian Foreign Policy', The EU-Russia Centre Review,
Issue 8, October 2008, www.eu-russiacentre.org Russia and its foreign policy : influences,
interests and issues ed H Smith.. (2005). R.IX.f.3 RUS V Shlapentokh, 'The Puzzle of
Russian Anti-Americanism: From "Below" or From "Above"?', Europe-Asia Studies, 63, 5,
July 2011, 875-89. Russia's foreign policy dilemmas ed M Mendras forthcoming Peter
Truscott, Russia First: Breaking with the West (1997). M Galeotti, Age of Anxiety, ch 7-8.
11. Concepts and doctrines (11 items)
What have been the aims of Russian foreign policy since 1991? Has it been consistently
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pragmatic, or has it changed and become more nationalistic?
Andrei Tsygankov contrasts 'great-power balancing' of Primakov with Putin's 'great –power
pragmatism'. Is this valid?
Were the foreign policy concepts of June 2000 (Putin) and 12 July 2008 (Medvedev)
rhetorical statements or genuine guides to Russian foreign policy?
(Note also the significance of the Military Doctrines adopted on 2 November 1993 in 2000
and in February 2010; and the December 1997 and February 2000 'Concepts of national
security' and the May 2009 National Security Strategy.)
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | chs 5, 9.
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | chs 3, 4 and 5
** 'The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation. Approved by the President of the
Russian Federation V Putin, June 28 2000', and 'The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian
Federation. Approved by Dmitry A Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, on 12
July 2008'. To be circulated.
Essential
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Recommended | Introduction and ch 1
Russia's foreign security policy in the 21st century: Putin, Medvedev and beyond - Haas,
M. de, c2010
Book | chs 1, 3
Vladimir Putin and the evolution of Russian foreign policy - Lo, Bobo, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, c2003
Book | Recommended | chs 4 & 5
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Recommended | chs 5, 14
Internal factors in Russian foreign policy - Malcolm, Neil, 1996
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| Recommended | esp ch by Light on concepts and ideas
The Realism of Russia's Foreign Policy - Allen C. Lynch, 2001-01
Article | Recommended
Richard Sakwa, Putin: Russia's Choice, 2nd edn, 2008, pbk ch 10 _____, '"New Cold War" or
Twenty Years' Crisis? Russia and International Politics', International Affairs, 84, 2, March
2008, 241-67. Lilia Shevtsova, Lonely Power: Why Russia has Failed to Become the West
and the West is Weary of Russia. Carnegie 2010. R.IX.f.3 SHE A Monaghan, '"An Enemy at
the Gates" or "From Victory to Victory"? Russian Foreign Policy', International Affairs, 84, 4,
July 2008, 717-33 'Russia's National Security Strategy', Russian Analytical Digest,
www.res.ethz.ch no. 62, 18 June 2009. D Spechler, 'Russian Foreign Policy during the Putin
Presidency: The Impact of Competing Approaches', Problems of Post-Communism, 57, 5,
Sept-Oct 2010, 35-50. A Shleifer & D Treisman, 'Why Moscow Says No: A Question if
Russian Interests, not Psychology', Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 2011, 122-38 A Tsygankov,
'Preserving Influence in a Changing World: Russia's Grand Strategy', Problems of
Post-Communism, 58, 2, Mar-Apr 2011, 28-44. M Bain, 'Russia and Cuba: "Doomed"
Comrades?', Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 44, 2011, 111-18. A Andreev,
'Russians' Views on Foreign Policy after the Caucasus Crisis', Russian Politics and Law, 48,
6, Nov-Dec 2010, pp. 7-18. Janina Šleivyte, Russia's European agenda and the Baltic States
(2010), chs 2 & 3. R.IX.f.3 SLE D Herspring & P Rutland, 'Putin and Russian Foreign Policy',
in Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, ed D Herspring (Rowman & Littlefield
2003 pbk), ch 11. S N MacFarlane, 'The "R" in BRICs: Is Russia an Emerging Power?'
International Affairs, 82, 1, January 2006, 41-57 Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia,
ed R Allison & C Bluth (1998), Pt I. The Sources of Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold
War, ed C Wallander (1996), esp chs 3, 4 & 9. Igor S Ivanov, The New Russian Diplomacy
(2002), esp ch 1. The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, ed
A Dawisha & K Dawisha (1995), intro ( A Dawisha) & ch 5 (Valdez). L Aron, 'The Foreign
Policy Doctrine of Postcommunist Russia and its Domestic Context', in The New Russian
Foreign Policy, ed M Mandelbaum (1998), ch 1. P Shearman & M Sussex, 'The Roots of Russian Conduct', in Crisis in the Caucasus: Russia, Georgia and the West, ed P Rich
(2010), ch 1. P Shearman, 'The Sources of Russian Conduct: Understanding Russian
Foreign Policy', Review of International Studies, 27, 2, April 2001, 249-63 (in SHL). F
Splidsboel-Hansen, 'Past and Future Meet: Aleksandr Gorchakov and Russian Foreign
Policy', Europe-Asia Studies, 54, 3, May 2002, 377-96 [L] A Kassianova, 'Russia: Still Open
to the West? Evolution of the State Identity in the Foreign Policy and Security Discourse',
Europe-Asia Studies, 53, 6, Sept 2001, 821-39. Bobo Lo, Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of
Russian Foreign Policy (2003 pbk). R Puglisi, 'The "Normalisation" of Russian Foreign
Policy: The Role of Pragmatic Nationalism and Big Business', in Security Dynamics in the
Former Soviet Bloc, ed G Herd & J Moroney (2003) ch 5. M Light, 'In Search of an Identity:
Russian Foreign Policy and the End of Ideology', in Journal of Communist Studies and
Transition Politics, 19, 3, September 2003, special issue 'Ideology and National Identity in
Post-Communist Foreign Policies', pp 42-59. Eugene B. Rumer, 'Russian Foreign Policy
beyond Putin'. Adelphi Papers, 390, 2007, esp chs 1 & 2 L Selezneva, 'Post-Soviet Russian
Foreign Policy: Between Doctrine and Pragmatism', in Realignments in Russian Foreign
Policy, ed R Fawn (2003), pp 10-28; M Buckley, 'Russian Foreign Policy and its Critics', in
ibid., pp 29-46. Astrid S Tuminez, Russian Nationalism since 1856: Ideology and the
Making of Foreign Policy (2000) pbk Peter Truscott, Russia First: Breaking with the West
(1997). Thomas Ambrosio, Challenging America's Global Preeminence: Russia's Quest for
Multipolarity (2005), esp chs 3-4 Christian Thorun, Explaining change in Russian foreign
policy : the role of ideas in post-Soviet Russia's conduct towards the West (2009). Sirke
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Mäkinen, Russian Geopolitical Visions and Argumentation: Parties of Power, Democratic
and Communist Opposition on Chechnia and NATO, 1994-2003 (2008) Marlène Laruelle,
Russian Eurasianism : an ideology of empire (2008) When empire meets nationalism :
power and politics in the US and Russia ed D Chaudet, F Parmentier & B Pélopidas. (2009)..
R.IX.f WHE Andrei P Tsygankov, 'Mastering Space in Europe: Russia's Geopolitical Thinking
after the Soviet Breakup', Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 36, 1, Mar 2003,
101-27. _____. 'Vladimir Putin's Vision of Russia as a Normal Great Power', Post-Soviet
Affairs, 21, 2, 2005, 132-58 _____, 'If not by Tanks, then by Banks? The Role of Soft Power
in Putin's Foreign Policy', Europe-Asia Studies, 58, 7, November 2006, 1079-1099 H
Adomeit, 'Russia as a "Great Power" in World Affairs: Images and Reality', International
Affairs (London), 71, 1, Jan 1995, 35-68. Duncan, Russian Messianism, ch 10. D Kerr, 'The
New Eurasianism: The Rise of Geopolitics in Russia's Foreign Policy', Europe-Asia Studies,
47, 6, Sep 1995, 977-88. P Rangsimaporn, 'Interpretations of Eurasianism: Justifying
Russia's Role in East Asia', Europe-Asia Studies, 58, 3, May 2006, 371-89 S Garnett,
'Russia's Illusory Ambitions', Foreign Affairs, 76, 2, Mar-Apr 1997, 61-76 (In SHL).
12. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (12 items)
A mechanism for civilized divorce, or the basis of a new Russian Empire? Why did the CIS
come into existence in December 1991? Why were there only three original members?
The eleven members are now Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Armenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Turkmenistan. Georgia announced
it was leaving in August 2008.Has Russia accepted the independence of the other former
Soviet republics?
Is the CIS developing into a federation or confederation or heading for dissolution?
Consider the impact of
(a) the Collective Security Treaty Organization – Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Uzbekistan
(b) the Eurasian Economic Community - all the above except Armenia, plus Uzbekistan
(membership suspended)
(c) the proposed 'Common economic space' – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
(d) the Russo-Belarusian 'Union State'
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Why was GUAM – Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova –established in 1997 (Uzbekistan
joined in 1999 but left in 2005)?
What does Russia gain from the existence of the CIS?
Where and why is Russia involved in peace-keeping within the CIS?
How did Russia respond to the 'Coloured revolutions' (Rose Revolution in Georgia, 2003,
Orange Revolution in Ukraine, 2004 and Tulip Revolution, Kyrgyzstan, 2005)?
What is the importance of the ethnic Russian minorities in the CIS and the Baltic States?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch. 6
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | pp 109-18
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Recommended | ch 6.
Russian foreign policy in the Post-Soviet era: Reality, illusion and mythmaking - Lo, Bobo,
2002
Book | Recommended | pp 72-86.
Russia's Spheres of Interest, not Influence
Article | Recommended
- Dmitri Trenin, 2009-10
The Commonwealth of Independent States: an example of failed regionalism? - PAUL
KUBICEK, 2009-3-23
Article | Recommended
Russian Policy Toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: <i>Recent Trends and
Future Prospects</i> - Mark Kramer, 2008-11-1
Article | Recommended
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Recommended | ch 6
D Lane, '"Coloured Revolution" as a Political Phenomenon', Journal of Communist Studies
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and Transition Politics, 25, 2-3, June-September 2009, pp. 113-35. J Wilson, 'Coloured
Revolutions: The View from Moscow and Beijing' Journal of Communist Studies and
Transition Politics, 25, 2-3, June-September 2009, pp. 369-95. R Sakwa & M Webber, 'The
Commonwealth of Independent States 1991-1998: Stagnation and Survival', Europe-Asia
Studies, 51, 3, May 1999, 379-415.
Midnight diaries - Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, 2001
Book | Recommended | ch 15.
G Herd, 'Colorful revolutions and the CIS: "Manufactured" versus "Managed" Democracy?',
Problems of Post-Communism, 52, 2, Mar-Apr 2005, 3-18 R Fawn, 'Battle over the Box:
International Election Observer Missions, Political Competition and Retrenchment in
Post-Soviet Space', International Affairs, 82, 6, November 2006, 1133-53 'Democratic
Revolutions in Post-Communist States', ed T Kuzio, special issue, Communist and
Post-Communist Studies, 39, 3, September 2006, 283-430 T Tudoroiu, 'Rose, Orange and
Tulip: The Failed Post-Soviet Revolutions', ibid., 40, 3, September 2007, 315-42 Ruth
Deyermond, Security and Sovereignty in the Former Soviet Union (2008), ch 2. B Nygren,
'Putin's Use of Natural Gas to Reintegrate the CIS Region', Problems of Post-Communism,
55, 4, Jul-Aug 2008, 3-15 A Libman, 'Regionalisation and Regionalism in the Post-Soviet
Space: Current Status and Implications for Institutional Development', Europe-Asia Studies,
59, 3, May 2007, 401-430 T Kuzio, 'Promoting Geopolitical Pluralism in the CIS: GUAAM and
Western Foreign Policy', Problems of Post-Communism, 47, 3, May-June 2000, 25-35. J
Dunlop, 'Russia under Putin: Re-integrating Post-Soviet Space', Journal of Democracy, 11,
3, July 2000, 19-47 (in SHL). P Kubicek, 'End of the Line for the Commonwealth of
Independent States', Problems of Post-Communism, 46, 2, Mar-Apr 1999, 15-24. M B Olcott
et al, Getting it Wrong: Regional Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent
States (1999) pbk Dmitri Trenin, The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border between
Geopolitics and Globalization (2002) pbk. P Duncan, 'Westernism, Eurasianism and
Pragmatism: The Foreign Policies of the Post-Soviet States', in The Legacy of the Soviet
Union, ed Wendy Slater and Andrew Wilson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) pp 228-53 R
Deyermond, 'The State of the Union: Military Success, Economic and Political Failure in the
Russia-Belarus Union', Europe-Asia Studies, 56, 8, December 2004, 1191-1205 D Marples,
'Is the Russia-Belarus Union Obsolete?', Problems of Post-Communism,, 55, 1, Jan-Feb
2008, 25-35 C Bruce, 'Friction or Fiction? The Gas Factor in Russian-Belarusian Relations',
Chatham House, 2005, www.chathamhouse.org.uk/pdf/research/rep/BP0501gas.pdf C
Rontoyanni, 'The Union of Belarus and Russia: The Role of the EU', in Security Dynamics in
the Former Soviet Bloc, ed G Herd & J Moroney (2003) ch 8. Alex Danilovich,
Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games behind the Kremlin Walls. Ashgate, 2006 E
Akerman & G Herd, 'Russian Foreign Policy: The CIS and the Baltic States', in Russian
Politics under Putin, ed C Ross (2004) pbk, ch 15 R Rose & N Munro, 'Do Russians See their
Future in Europe or the CIS?', Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 1, Jan 2008, 49-66 Igor Zevelev,
Russia and its New Diasporas (2001). J L Black, Vladimir Putin and the New World Order:
Looking East, Looking West (2004) pbk Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia, ed R
Allison & C Bluth (1998) pbk, chs 11 & 14 Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet
Union: Regions in Conflict, ed J Hughes and G Sasse (2002) pbk. Mark Webber, CIS
Integration Trends: Russia and the Former Soviet South (1997). C Clover, 'Dreams of the
Eurasian Heartland: The Reemergence of Geopolitics', Foreign Affairs, 78, 2, Mar-Apr 1999,
9-13. S Mikoyan, 'Russia, the US and Regional Conflict in Eurasia', Survival, 40, 3, Autumn
1998, 112-26 (in SHL). Dmitri Trenin, Post-imperium: Russia and its Neighbors. Carnegie
2010. Peter Truscott, Russia First: Breaking with the West (1997), pp 58-96. Lena Jonson,
Keeping the Peace in the CIS: The Evolution of Russian Policy (1999). Dov Lynch, Russian
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Peacekeeping Strategies in the CIS: The Cases of Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan (1999)
Regional Peacekeepers: The Paradox of Russian Peacekeeping, ed J Mackinlay & P Cross.
UN UP 2003 pbk Valery Tishkov, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet
Union: The Mind Aflame (1997) Russia: A Return to Imperialism? ed U Ra'anan & K Martin
(1995). Bertil Nygren, The Rebuilding of Greater Russia: Putin's Foreign Policy towards the
CIS Countries (2008) Thomas Ambrosio, Authoritarian backlash : Russian resistance to
democratization in the former Soviet Union 2009.. The CIS, the EU and Russia: Challenges
of Integration, ed K Malfliet, L Verpoest & E Vinokurov (2007). Jonathan P Stern, The Future
of Russian Gas and Gazprom (2005) C Bruce, 'Power Resources: The Political Agenda in
Russo-Moldovan Gas Relations', Problems of Post-Communism, 54, 3, May-June 2007,
29-47
13. Russia and Ukraine
(7 items)
Has Russia accepted the independence of Ukraine?
How have Russia and Ukraine managed the issue of Russian minorities in Ukraine,
particularly the problem of the Crimea? What problems arose in relations between the two
countries arising from the dissolution of the Soviet Army? Consider in particular nuclear
weapons, the Black Sea Fleet and the 1997 Russo-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty.
How did Putin's Russia benefit from 'Kuchmagate'? What was Russia's role in the 'Orange
Revolution'? How were Russia's relations with Ukraine been affected by the election of
Viktor Iushchenko as President of Ukraine?
Consider how Russia sought to avoid Ukraine's accession to NATO.
Why did Russia cut off the supply of gas to Ukraine in January 2006 and in January 2009? Is
Russia using gas as a political weapon? What is the role of Gazprom?
What has been the impact on Russo-Ukrainian relations of the election of Viktor Ianukovich
as president in February 2010? Consider the April 2010 agreement over Sevastopol and
gas supply.
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch 6
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The Mortgaging of Ukraine&#039;s Independence | Chatham House: Independent thinking
on international affairs - James Sherr, 2010
Webpage | Essential
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Recommended | ch 6
J Mankoff, Russian Foreign Policy, (2011 pbk), pp 246-55 'Russian-Ukrainian Relations',
Russian Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch no. 75, 16 March 2010 D Arel, 'Ukraine since
the War in Georgia', Survival, 50, 6, December 2008-January 2009, 15-24 F. Stephen
Larrabee, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, AND CENTRAL EUROPE: THE RETURN OF GEOPOLITICS.
Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer2010, Vol. 63 Issue 2, p33-52 (SHL) F S
Larrabee, 'Ukraine and the West', Survival, 48, 1, Spring 2006, 93-110 (in SHL) J Sherr,
'Russia-Ukraine Rapprochement? The Black Sea Fleet Accords', Survival, 39, 3, Autumn
1997, 33-50 (in SHL). S Pirani, J Stern & K Yafimava, 'The April 2010 Russo-Ukrainian Gas
Agreement and its Implications for Europe', Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, NG 42,
June 2010, www.oxfordenergy.org Ruth Deyermond, Security and Sovereignty in the
Former Soviet Union (2008), chs 3 & 4. T Colton et al., 'Russia in the Year 2004',
Post-Soviet Affairs, 21, 1, Jan-Mar 2005, 1-25, esp pp 12-18. Yuliya Tymoshenko,
'Containing Russia', Foreign Affairs, 87, 3, May-Jun 2007 (in SHL) V Pastukhov, 'The Power
of Mutual Repulsion: Russia and Ukraine – Two Versions of One Transformation', Russian
Politics and Law, 48, 6, Nov-Dec 2010, pp. 70-84. T Bukkvoll, 'Off the Cuff Politics Explaining Russia's Lack of a Ukraine Strategy', Europe-Asia Studies, 53, 8, Dec 2001,
1141-57 M Balmaceda, 'Russian Energy Companies in the New Eastern Europe: The Cases
of Ukraine and Belarus', in Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in
Foreign and Security Relations ed A Wenger, J Perovic & R Orttung (2006), pp. 67-87 B Lo,
Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era (2002), pp 72-86. N Copsey, 'Ukraine', in The
Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics: Successes and Failures, ed Donnacha Ó
Beacháin and Abel Polese, ch 3 (2010). R.IX.f.2 COL Security Dilemmas in Russia and
Eurasia, ed R Allison & C Bluth (1998), chs 6 & 7 J L Black, Vladimir Putin and the New
World Order: Looking East, Looking West (2004) pbk, ch 9. R Puglisi, 'Clashing Agendas?
Economic Interests, Elite Coalitions and Prospects for Co-operation between Russia and
Ukraine', Europe-Asia Studies, 55, 6, September 2003, 827-45. V Chudowsky, 'Imperialism
to Realism: The Role of the West in Russian Foreign policy towards Ukraine', in Security
Dynamics in the Former Soviet Bloc, ed G Herd & J Moroney (2003), ch 7. Anatol Lieven,
Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry (1999) T Kuzio, 'Promoting Geopolitical Pluralism in
the CIS: GUUAM and Western Foreign Policy', Problems of Post-Communism, 47, 3,
May-June 2000, 25-35. ¬¬¬¬_____, 'Neither East nor West: Ukraine's Security Policy under
Kuchma', ibid, 52, 5, Sept-Oct 2005, 59-68. J Adams, 'Russia's Gas Diplomacy', Problems of
Post-Communism, 49, 3, May-Jun 2002, 14-22. O Smolansky, 'Fuel, Credit and Trade:
Ukraine's Economic Dependence on Russia', Problems of Post-Communism, 46, 2, Mar-Apr
1999, 49-58. S White, I McAllister, M Light & J Löwenhardt, 'A European or a Slavic Choice?
Foreign Policy and Public Attitudes in Post-Soviet Europe', Europe-Asia Studies, 54, 2,
March 2002, 181-202. Margarita M Balmaceda, Energy Dependency, Politics and
Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's
Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006 (2008) Rosaria Puglisi, Economic Elites and
Russian-Ukraine Relations (forthcoming) Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected
Nation (2000) _____, Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2005) Revolution in Orange: The Origins
of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough, ed A Åslund & M McFaul (2006)
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Russia's Ukraine policy against the background of Russian-Western competition Kropatcheva, Elena, 2010
Book | Recommended
Thomas Ambrosio, Authoritarian backlash : Russian resistance to democratization in the
former Soviet Union, ch 7. Ashgate 2009.. Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy:
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, ed J Moroney, T Kuzio & M Molchanov (2002)
14. Russian influence in Transcaucasia and Central Asia (10 items)
Is Russia guided primarily by economic needs or security concerns in its relations with
Central Asia and the Caspian region? Does Russia encourage ethnic tension in Georgia, between Armenia and Azerbaijan and in
Tajikistan in order to maintain its influence within the former Soviet Union?
Analyze Russia's policy towards Georgia during and after the crisis of 2003 which led to
the downfall of Eduard Shevardnadze. Why did Russian troops proceed from South Ossetia
and Abkhazia into other parts of Georgia in August 2008? Why did Russia recognize the
independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia after the war?
How has Russia sought to retain its influence in Central Asia since 11 September 2001?
What is the significance of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (China, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch 6, pp.363-64, 372-76.
Russia resurgent? Moscow's campaign to ‘coerce Georgia to peace’ - ROY ALLISON,
2008-11
Article | Essential
Russian Policy in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea Region - Andrei Kazantsev, 2008-08
Article | Recommended
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Recommended | pp 255-80
'Russia-Georgia Relations', Russian Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch no. 68, 23
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November 2009. The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics: Successes and
Failures, ed Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Abel Polese (2010), chs 3-4, 6-7 & 10-13. R.IX.f.2
COL R Deyermond, 'Matrioshka Hegemony? Multi-Levelled Hegemonic Competition and
Security in Post-Soviet Central Asia', Review of International Studies, 35, 1, January 2009,
151-73. R Allison, 'Strategic Reassertion in Russia's Central Asian Policy', International
Affairs, 80, 2, March 2004, 277-93. J Heathershaw & N Megoran, 'Contesting Danger: A
New Agenda for Policy and Scholarship in Central Asia', International Affairs, 87, 3, May
2011, 589-612. R Sakwa, 'The Clash of Regionalisms and Caucasian Conflicts', Europe-Asia
Studies, 63, 3, May 2011, 467-91. T de Waal, 'Remaking the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace
Process', Survival, 52, 4, Aug-Sept 2010, 159-76. 'Relations between the North and South
Caucasus', Caucasus Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch, no. 27, 27 May 2011. D Lynch,
'Separatist States and Post-Soviet Conflicts', International Affairs, 78, 4, Oct 2002, 831-48.
International Affairs, 80, 3, May 2004, special issue on regionalism in Central Asia, esp A
Bohr's article. R Fawn, 'The Kosovo – and Montenegro – Effect', ibid.,, 84, 2, Mar 2008,
269-94 Maj. Gen Yu. Ivanov, 'Russia's National Security Problems in Transcaucasia and the
Era of Globalisation', Military Thought, 14, 1, 2005, 42-54 C Welt, 'The Thawing of a Frozen
Conflict: The Internal Security Dilemma and the 2004 Prelude to the Russo-Georgian War',
Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 1, January 2010, 63-97. Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia,
ed Allison & Bluth (1998), esp chs 9, 10 & 12. 'Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Central
Asia: Dimensions and Challenges', ed K Korostelina & D Sandole, special issue, Communist
and Post-Communist Studies, 40, 2, 123-268, June 2007, 123-268 Alyson J. K. Bailes, Pál
Dunay, Pan Guang and Mikhail Troitskiy, 'The Shanghai Cooperation Organization', SIPRI
Policy Paper No. 17 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, May 2007
http://books.sipri.org/files/PP/SIPRIPP17.pdf
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: ‘Tackling the Three Evils’. A Regional Response to
Non-traditional Security Challenges or an Anti-Western Bloc? - Stephen Aris, 2009-05
Article | Recommended
D Kerr, 'Central Asian and Russian Perspectives on China's Strategic Emergence',
International Affairs, 86, 1, January 2010, 127-52. J Berryman, 'Russia and China in the
New Central Asia: The Security Agenda', in Russia: Re-Emerging Great Power, ed R Kanet
(2007), ch 7 R Menon, 'The New Great Game in Central Asia', Survival, 45, 2, Summer
2003, 187-204 (in SHL). _____, 'After Empire: Russia and the Southern "Near Abroad"', in
The New Russian Foreign Policy, ed M Mandelbaum (1998), ch 3. D Trenin, 'Southern
Watch: Russia's Policy in Central Asia', Journal of International Affairs, 56, 2, Spring 2003,
119-31 (special issue on Central Asia; in SHL). _____, The End of Eurasia (2002) pbk, ch 4. B
Rumer, 'The Powers in Central Asia', Survival, 44, 3, Autumn 2002, 57-68 (in SHL). S Blank,
'The Future of Caspian Security', Problems of Post-Communism, 50, 1, Jan-Feb 2003, 8-21.
G Herd, 'The Russo-Chechen Information Warfare and 9/11: Al-Qaeda through the South
Caucasus Looking Glass', in Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy, ed R Fawn (2003) pbk,
pp 110-30; and R Fawn, 'Russia's Reluctant Retreat from the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia
and the US after 11 September 2001', in ibid., pp 131-50. L Jonson, 'The Security
Dimensions of Russia's Policy in South Central Asia', in Russia between East and West, ed
G Gorodetsky (2003) ch 12; and Yaacov Ro'i, 'The Role of Islam in Russia's Relations with
Central Asia', in ibid., ch 13. G Lapidus, 'Between Assertiveness and Insecurity: Russian
Elite Attitudes and the Russia-Georgia Crisis', Post-Soviet Affairs, 23, 2, Apr-Jun 2007,
138-55 E Miller, 'Smelling the Roses: Eduard Shevardnadze's End and Georgia's Future',
Problems of Post-Communism, 52, 2, Mar-Apr 2004, 12-21. Tracey German, 'Faultline or
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Foothold? Georgia's Relations with Russia and the USA', Conflict Studies Research Centre,
P41, January 2004. T Hopf, 'Identity, Legitimacy and the Use of Military Force: Russia's
Great Power Identities and Military Intervention in Abkhazia' Review of International
Studies, 31, Special Issue, December 2005, 225-43 (in SHL) A Tsygankov, 'If not by Tanks,
then by Banks? The Role of Soft Power in Putin's Foreign Policy', Europe-Asia Studies, 58,
7, November 2006, 1079-1099 (focus on Caucasus) W O'Malley & R McDermott,
'Kyrgyzstan's Security Tightrope: Balancing its Relations with Moscow and Washington',
Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 16, 3, September 2003, 72-111. B Lo, Russian Foreign
Policy in the Post-Soviet Era (2002), pp 72-86. J L Black, Vladimir Putin and the New World
Order: Looking East, Looking West, (2004) pbk, chs 8 and 10 The Security of the Caspian
Sea Region, ed G Chufrin (2001). Russia and Asia: The Emerging Security Agenda, ed G
Chufrin (1999), Pt II, 'Russia's Stakes in Central Asia'. M Spechler, 'Free at Last? Uzbekistan
and Russia', Problems of Post-Communism, 49, 1, Jan-Feb 2002, 63-67. J Perovic, 'Russian
Energy Companies in the Caspian and Central Eurasian Region: Expanding Southward', in
Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations ed
A Wenger, J Perovic & R Orttung (2006), pp 88-113 G Gleason, 'Russia and the Politics of
the Central Asian Electricity Grid', Problems of Post-Communism, 50, 3, May-Jun 2003,
42-52. F Hill & O Taspinar, 'Turkey and Russia: Axis of the Excluded?', Survival, 48, 1,
Spring 2006, 81-92 (in SHL) C Clover, 'Dreams of the Eurasian Heartland: The
Reemergence of Geopolitics', Foreign Affairs, 78, 2, Mar-Apr 1999, 9-13 (in SHL). A Becker,
'Russia and Caspian Oil: Moscow Loses Control', Post-Soviet Affairs, 16, 2, Apr-Jun 2000,
91-132. J Adams, 'The U.S.-Russia Face-Off in the Caspian Basin', Problems of
Post-Communism, 47, 1, Jan-Feb 2000, 49-58.. J Kalicki, 'Caspian Energy at the
Crossroads', Foreign Affairs, 80, 5, Sept-Oct 2001, 120-34 (in SHL). Thomas de Waal, The
Caucasus: An Introduction. OUP 2010. R.XXI.2 DEW Pavel Baev, Russia's Policies in the
Caucasus (1997). Ronald D. Asmus, A little war that shook the world : Georgia, Russia and
the future of the West (2010) R.XXI.11 ASM
Crisis in the Caucasus: Russia, Georgia and the West - Rich, Paul B., 2009
Book | Recommended
Dov Lynch, Russian Peacekeeping Strategies in the CIS: The Cases of Moldova, Georgia
and Tajikistan (2000). Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, ed R Menon et al (1999) R
Bhatty & R Bronson, 'NATO's Mixed Signals in the Caucasus and Central Asia', Survival, 42,
3, Autumn 2000, 129-45 (in SHL). Central Asian Security: The New International Context,
ed R Allison & L Jonson (2001) Kenneth Weisbrode, Central Asia: Prize or Quicksand.
Contending Views of Instability in Karabakh, Fergana and Afghanistan (Adelphi Paper 338,
2001) Martin McCauley, Afghanistan and Central Asia: A Modern History (2002). Ahmed
Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (2002) pbk Martha Brill Olcott,
Central Asia's Second Chance (2005) pbk Mark Webber, CIS Integration Trends: Russia and
the Former Soviet South (1997). Lena Jonson, Russia and Central Asia: A New Web of
Relations (1998). _____, Keeping the Peace in the CIS: The Evolution of Russian Policy
(1999). _____, Vladimir Putin and Central Asia: The Shaping of Russian Foreign Policy
(2004) Lena Jonson, Tajikistan in the New Central Asia: Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry
and Radical Islam. I. B. Tauris, 2006.. John Heathershaw, Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The
Politics of Peacebuilding and the Emergence of Legitimate Order. 2008 Radical Islam in the
former Soviet Union ed G Yemelianova. 2010.. R.XVII.18 RAD Eugene B Rumer, Dmitri
Trenin, and Huasheng Zhao, Central Asia: Views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. M.E. Sharpe, 2007.. Matthew Crosston, Fostering Fundamentalism: Terrorism, Democracy
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and American Engagement in Central Asia. Ashgate 2006. Valery Tishkov, Ethnicity,
Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame (1997)
15. NATO enlargement and Russia (19 items)
What were the reasons advanced in the 1990s for NATO enlargement, and how did Russia
respond to them? What was Russia's reaction to NATO's 'Partnership for Peace' (PfP)
programme?
How did Russia's policies evolve towards the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (esp Bosnia
and Kosovo) in the 1990s?
What are the major European issues in Russia's relations with NATO countries? What is the
significance of the NATO-Russia Founding Act of May 1997, and of the Rome Declaration of
May 2002 establishing the NATO-Russia Council?
Why did Putin accept the entry of the Baltic States into NATO?
How would you characterize Russia's relations with NATO now, after the enlargements of
1999 and 2004 and the 2008 conflict in Georgia?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | chs 7 & 9.
From Pristina to Tskhinvali: the legacy of Operation Allied Force in Russia's relations with
the West - DEREK AVERRE, 2009-05
Article | Essential
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | chs 3, 4 & 5
Rethinking Security in "Greater Europe" - Fyodor Lukyanov, 2009
Article | Recommended
Three Birds with One Stone? - Konstantin Kosachev, 2011
Article | Recommended
Yu Fedorov, 'Medvedev's Initiative: A Trap for Europe?', Central European Journal of
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International & Security Studies, 3, 2, 2009, 45-69,
http://cejiss.org/sites/default/files/fedorov-medvedevs_initiative.pdf O Antonenko & B
Giegerich, 'Rebooting NATO-Russia Relations', Survival, 51, 2, April-May 2009, 13-21, and E
Rumer & A Stent, 'Russia and the West', ibid., 91-103 'The Role of Russia in Europe's
Security Architecture', Russian Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch no. 55, 18 February
2009. R Weitz, 'Illusive Visions and Practical Realities: Russia, NATO and Missile Defence',
Survival, 52, 4, Aug-Sept 2010, 99-120. O Antonenko, 'Russia and the Deadlock over
Kosovo', Survival, 49, 3, Autumn 2007, 91-105 (in SHL) Roy Allison, Margot Light and
Stephen White, Putin's Russia and the Enlarged Europe (2006), esp ch 5 by R Allison
Russia and NATO since 1991: from cold war through cold peace to partnership? - Smith,
Martin A., c2006
Book | Recommended
A Bumpy Road to an Unknown Destination? NATO-Russia Relations, 1991-2002’ - Martin A.
Smith
Chapter | Recommended | pp 59-77.
D Trenin, 'Russia Leaves the West', Foreign Affairs, 85, 4, Jul-Aug 2006, 87-96 (in SHL). A
Arbatov, 'Is a New Cold War Imminent?' Russia in Global Affairs, 5, 3, Jul-Sep 2007, 84-97;
S Lavrov, 'Containing Russia: Back to the Future?', ibid., 5, 4, Oct-Dec 2007, 8-22; S
Karaganov, 'An New Epoch of Confrontation', ibid., pp 23-36; R Lyne, 'Russia and the West:
Is Confrontation Inevitable?' ibid., 6, 1, Jan-Mar 2008, 86-102 'Resurgent Russia',
Washington Quarterly, 30, 2, Spring 2007. V. Baranovsky, 'Russian views on NATO and the
EU', Ambivalent Neighbors, eds. A Lieven & D Trenin (2003), ch. 12 pp. 283-294.
NATO’s Final Frontier: Why Russia should join the Atlantic Alliance - C. Kupchan, 2010
Article | Recommended
J Granville, 'The Effect of NATO Expansion on the Putin Administration and Russian
Political Parties', Slovo, 13, 2001, pp 61-88. Petro & Rubinstein, pp 150-8. A Tsygankov,
'Russia's International Assertiveness: What does it Mean for the West?', Problems of
Post-Communism,, 55, 2, Mar-Apr 2008, 38-55 M Kramer, 'NATO, the Baltic States and
Russia: A Framework for Sustainable Enlargement', International Affairs, 78, 4, October
2002, 731-56; C Rontoyanni, 'So Far, So Good? Russia and the ESDP', ibid., 813-30. B Lo,
Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (2003) pbk, ch 5. William
Zimmerman, The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives,
1993-2000 (2002) pbk, ch 6. D Herspring & P Rutland, 'Putin and Russian Foreign Policy', in
Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, ed D Herspring (2003 pbk), ch 11. 'Prague
Summit Declaration: Issued by the Heads of State and Government Participating in the
Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Prague on November 21, 2002', Problems of
Post-Communism, 50, 2, Mar-Apr 2003, 29-33. J L Black, Vladimir Putin and the New World
Order (2004) pbk. Russia and Europe: Conflict or Cooperation?, ed M Webber (2000), esp
chs 3 (NATO), 5 (OSCE), 8 (former Yugoslavia). Russia and the West, ed A Arbatov et al.
(1999) C Blacker, 'Russia and the West', in The New Russian Foreign Policy, ed M
Mandelbaum (CFR 1998), ch 4. W Zimmerman, 'Survey Research and Russian Perspectives
on NATO Expansion', Post-Soviet Affairs, 17, 3, Jul-Sep 2001, 235-61. Igor Ivanov, 'The
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Missile Defense Mistake: Undermining Strategic Stability and the ABM Treaty', Foreign
Affairs, 79, 5, Sep-Oct 2000, 15-20 (in SHL). J Haslam, 'Russia's Seat at the Table: A Place
Denied or a Place Delayed?', International Affairs, 74, 1, Jan 1998, 119-30, and W Odom,
'Russia's Several Seats at the Table', ibid., 74, 4, Oct 1998, 809-22. R Dannreuther,
'Escaping the Enlargement Trap in NATO-Russian Relations', ibid., pp 145-64 (in SHL). F
Carr & P Flenley, 'NATO and the Russian Federation in the New Europe: The Founding Act
on Mutual Relations', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 15, 2, June
1999, 88-110. T Forsberg, 'Russia's Relationship with NATO: A Qualitative Change or Old
Wine in New Bottles?', ibid, 21, 3, September 2005, 332-53.
Russia faces NATO expansion: bearing gifts or bearing arms? - Black, J. L., 1999
Book | Recommended
Roderic Lyne, Strobe Talbott, Koji Watanabe, Engaging with Russia: The Next Phase.
Trilateral Commission, 2006 pbk. Russia and Europe: The Emerging Security Agenda, ed V
Baranovsky (1997). Security Challenges in Postcommunist Europe: Securing Europe's East,
ed A Cottey & D Averre (2002) pbk Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States can
and should do; report of an independent task force [John Edwards and Jack Kemp, chairs ;
Stephen Sestanovich, project director] New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2006.
Lionel Ponsard, Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security: Bridging the Gap. Routledge 2006.
David Fairhall, Cold Front: Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters (2010).
On Yugoslavia:
The Kosovo—and Montenegro—effect - RICK FAWN, 2008-03
Article | Recommended
Boris Yeltsin, Midnight Diaries (2000) pbk, ch 16 (Kosovo). O Antonenko, 'Russia, NATO
and European Security after Kosovo', Survival, 41, 4, Winter 1999-2000, 124-44 (in SHL). A
Tsygankov, 'The Final Triumph of the Pax Americana? Western Intervention in Yugoslavia
and Russia's Debate on the Post-Cold War Order', Communist and Post-Communist
Studies, 34, 2, June 2001, 133-56.
Russia and the Balkans: foreign policy from Yeltsin to Putin - Headley, James, 2008
Book | Recommended
J Headley, 'Sarajevo, February 1994: The First Russia-NATO Crisis of the Post-Cold War
Era', Review of International Studies, 29, 2, April 2003, 209-27 (in SHL). O Levitin, 'Inside
Moscow's Kosovo Muddle', Survival, 42, 1, Spring 2000, 130-40 (in SHL)
16. EU enlargement and Russia (9 items)
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Russia's attitude to the European Union was much more favourable than to NATO through
the 1990s. Why was this, and why did this change in the years immediately before 2004?
Consider political, security, economic and humanitarian aspects.
What were the particular issues concerning the entry of the Baltic States?
Why have the negotiations over the renewal of the Partnership and Co-operation
Agreement between the EU and Russia been held up?
What is Russia's attitude to the EU's European Neighbourhood Policy, developed in 2004,
and the Eastern Partnership, launched in 2009?
What are the main problems and fears concerning Russia's supply of energy to the
countries of the EU? How is Russia dealing with them?
How seriously does Russia take the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE) and the Council of Europe (CE or CoE)? Why has Medvedev advocated a European
Security Treaty?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | chs 7 & 9.
Russia and the EU: Strategic Partners or Strategic Rivals?* - MARGOT LIGHT, 2008-09
Article | Essential
Competing Rationalities: Russia, the EU and the ‘Shared Neighbourhood’ - Derek Averre,
2009-12
Article | Essential | special issue of Europe-Asia Studies, 61, 10, December 2009 - see
also other articles in this issue of Europe-Asia Studies
H Haukkala, 'Russian Reactions to the European Neighborhood Policy', Problems of
Post-Communism, 55, 5, September-October 2008, 40-48. D Averre., '"Sovereign
Democracy" and Russia's Relations with the European Union', Demokratizatsiya, 15, 2,
Spring 2007, pp. 173-90. Special issue on the Eastern Partnership, Journal of Communist
Studies and Transition Politics, 27, 1, March 2011. Includes S Tumanov, A Gasparishvili &
E Romanova, 'Russia-EU Relations, or How the Russians Really View the EU', pp. 120-41.
John Lough, 'Russia's Energy Diplomacy', Chatham House Briefing Paper May 2011,
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/1064/ Andrew Wood,
'Russia's Business Diplomacy', Chatham House Briefing Paper, May 2011,
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/russia_eurasia/papers/view/-/id/1063/ E Faber
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van der Meulen, 'Gas Supply and EU-Russia Relations', Europe-Asia Studies, 61, 5, July
2009, 833-56. 'Russia and the EU's Northern Dimension', Russian Analytical Digest,
www.res.ethz.ch no,. 61, 2 June 2009. Roy Allison, Margot Light and Stephen White, Putin's
Russia and the Enlarged Europe (2006), esp ch 3 by M Light V. Baranovsky, 'Russian views
on NATO and the EU', Ambivalent Neighbors, eds. A Lieven & D Trenin (2003), ch. 12 pp.
283-294. _____, 'Russia: A Part of Europe or Apart from Europe?', International Affairs
(London), 76, 3, July 2000, 443-58. J Gower, 'Russian Foreign Policy towards the European
Union', in Russian Politics under Putin, ed C Ross (2004) pbk, ch 13. Petro & Rubinstein,
pp 172-88. F Lukyanov, 'Russia-EU: The Partnership that Went Astray', Europe-Asia
Studies, 60, 6, Aug 2008, 1107-19
The South Stream versus Nabucco pipeline race: geopolitical and economic (ir)rationales
and political stakes in mega-projects - PAVEL K. BAEV, INDRA ØVERLAND, 2010-09-27
Article | Recommended
C Locatelli, 'Russian and Caspian Hydrocarbons: Energy Supply Stakes for the European
Union', Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 6, August 2010, 959-71. J Kulhanek, 'The Fundamentals of
Russia's EU Policy', Problems of Post-Communism, 57, 5, Sept-Oct 2010, 51-63. I Klinke,
'(Post)modern Geopolitics: The European Union Eyes Russia', Europe-Asia Studies,
forthcoming 2011. 'The European Choice?' articles in Russia in Global Affairs, 6, 2, Apr-Jun
2008, 172-205 G Timmins, 'Strategic or Pragmatic Partnership? The European Union's
Policy towards Russia since the End of the Cold War', in Realignments in Russian Foreign
Policy, ed R Fawn (2003) pbk, pp 78-95. Russia and the European Union, ed O Antonenko
& K Pinnick. Routledge/IISS 2005. 'Resurgent Russia', Washington Quarterly, 30, 2, Spring
2007. C Rontoyanni, 'So Far, So Good? Russia and the ESDP', International Affairs, 78, 4,
October 2002, 813-30. Russia and Europe: Conflict or Cooperation?, ed M Webber (2000),
esp chs 4 (EU), 5 (OSCE), 6 (Council of Europe). M Light, S White & J Lowenhardt, 'A Wider
Europe: The View from Moscow and Kyiv', International Affairs (London), 76, 1, Jan 2000,
77-88 M Light, J Lowenhardt & S White, 'Russia and the Dual Expansion of Europe', in
Russia between East and West, ed G Gorodetsky (2003), ch 6. R Fawn, 'Correcting the
Incorrigible? Russia's Relations with the West over Chechnya', Journal of Communist
Studies and Transition Politics, 18, 1, March 2002, 3-20. C Francis, '"Selective Affinities":
The Reactions of the Council of Europe and the European Union to the Second Armed
Conflict in Chechnya (1999-2006)', Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 2, March 2008, 317-38 H
Pleines, 'Russian Energy Companies and the Enlarged European Union', in Russian
Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations ed A
Wenger, J Perovic & R Orttung (2006), pp 47-66 R Rose & N Munro, 'Do Russians See their
Future in Europe or the CIS?', Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 1, Jan 2008, 49-66 P Kratochvíl, 'The
Discursive Resistance to EU-Enticement: The Russian Elite and (the Lack of)
Europeanisation', Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 3, May 2008, 397-422
Russia and Europe in the twenty-first century: an uneasy partnership - Gower, Jackie,
Timmins, Graham, 2007
Book | Recommended
H Haukkala, 'Explaining Russian Reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy', in The
European Neighbourhood Policy in perspective : context, implementation and impact ed R
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Whitman & S Wolff. Palgrave Macmillan 2010. Misc.XII EUR The CIS, the EU and Russia:
Challenges of Integration, ed K Malfliet, L Verpoest & E Vinokurov (2007). Laure Delcour,
Shaping the Post-Soviet Space?: EU Policies and Approaches to Region-Building (2011)
R.IX.f.3 DEL The Black Sea Region and EU Policy: The Challenge of Divergent Agendas ed
Karen Henderson and Carol Weaver (2010). Misc.IX.f BLA Russia and Europe: Building
Bridges, Digging Trenches, ed Kjell Engelbrekt and Bertil Nygren (2010). R.IX.f.3 RUS
Russia and Europe: The Emerging Security Agenda, ed V Baranovsky (1997). Russia and
the West, ed A Arbatov et al. (1999) Yu Zverev, 'Kaliningrad: Problems and Paths of
Development', Problems of Post-Communism, 54, 2, Mar-Apr 2007, 9-25. Richard J Krickus,
The Kaliningrad Question (2002) pbk. Adapting to European Integration? Kaliningrad,
Russia and the European Union, ed S Gänzle, G Müntel & E Vinokurov (2009). R.XVI.1.c
ADA Angela Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse and the
New Europe (1999) Celeste Wallander, Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian
Cooperation after the Cold War (1999) Martin Smith & Graham Timmins, The European
Union, NATO and Russia (2003) Iver B Neumann, Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in
Identity and International Relations (1996) pbk Sergei Prozorov, Understanding Conflict
between Russia and the EU: The Limits of Integration. Palgrave 2006. C Blacker, 'Russia
and the West', in The New Russian Foreign Policy, ed M Mandelbaum (CFR 1998), ch 4. A
Jaffe & R Manning, 'Russia, Energy and the West', Survival, 43, 2, Summer 2001, 133-52. J
Adams, 'Russia's Gas Diplomacy', Problems of Post-Communism, 49, 3, May-Jun 2002,
14-22. E Levintova, 'Good Neighbours?: Dominant Narratives about the "Other" in
Contemporary Polish and Russian Newspapers', Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 8, October 2010,
1339-61. Iu Solozobov, 'An Answer to the "Polish Question", Russian Politics and Law, 48,
6, Nov-Dec 2010, pp. 51-63. E Korosteleva, 'Moldova's European Choice: "Between Two
Stools"?', Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 8, October 2010, 1267-89.
17. Russia’s co-operation with the West in the ‘war on terror’
(9 items)
How do Russians now perceive the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan of December 1979 and
the subsequent war?
Why did Putin decide to co-operate with US President George W Bush's 'war on terrorism'
after 11 September 2001? How important a factor was Chechnia? Why did Putin support
the Western intervention in Afghanistan? What opposition was there to Putin's decision?
In what ways has Russia helped the USA against al-Qa'eda and the Taliban? What are the
interests of the Russian Federation in Afghanistan today?
How satisfied were Russians with the results of co-operation with the West? Is there a
trade-off between Afghanistan and missile defence?
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What are the implications of the fight against the Taliban for Russia's relations with
Pakistan and India?
Vladimir Putin and the evolution of Russian foreign policy - Lo, Bobo, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, c2003
Book | Essential | ch 7.
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | chs 3, 4 & 5
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Recommended | ch 9.
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Recommended | ch 3
A Pravda, 'Putin's Foreign Policy after 11 September: Radical or Revolutionary?', in Russia
between East and West, ed G Gorodetsky (2003), ch 5. O Antonenko, 'Putin's Gamble',
Survival, 43, 4, Winter 2001, 49-59 (in SHL).
Illusive Visions and Practical Realities: Russia, NATO and Missile Defence - Richard Weitz,
2010-09
Article | Recommended
Russia and Afghanistan - Victor Korgun, 2010
Webpage | Recommended
G Hahn, 'U.S.-Russian Relations and the War against Jihadism', Century Foundation, New
York, 2009, www.tcf.org A Lieven, 'The Secret Policemen's Ball: The United States, Russia
and the International Order after 11 September', International Affairs, 78, 2, Apr 2002,
245-59 A Belkin, 'US-Russian Relations and the Global Counter-Terrorist Campaign', Journal
Of Slavic Military Studies, special issue, 'Russia's Security Policy and the War on Terror',
17, 1, March 2004, 13-28. A Stent & L Shevtsova, 'America, Russia and Europe: A
Realignment?', Survival, 44, 4, Winter 2002-3, 121-34. V Belokrenitsky, 'Russian-Afghan Relations', in Russia and Asia: The Emerging Security Agenda, ed G Chufrin (1999), ch 13. J
O'Loughlin et al., 'A "Risky Westward Turn"? Putin's 9/11 Script and Ordinary Russians',
Europe-Asia Studies, 56, 1, January 2004, 3-34. Thomas Ambrosio, Challenging America's
Global Preeminence: Russia's Quest for Multipolarity (2005), ch 7 G Herd, 'The
Russo-Chechen Information Warfare and 9/11: Al-Qaeda through the South Caucasus
Looking Glass', in Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy, ed R Fawn (2003) pbk, pp
110-30; and R Fawn, 'Russia's Reluctant Retreat from the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia
and the US after 11 September 2001', in ibid., pp 131-50. D Lynch, '"The Enemy is at the
Gate": Russia after Beslan', International Affairs (London), 81, 1, January 2005, 141-61 J
Mankoff, 'Russian Foreign Policy and the United States after Putin', Problems of
Post-Communism, 55, 4, Jul-Aug 2008, 42-51 M Katz, 'Saudi-Russian Relations since 9/11',
Problems of Post-Communism, 51, 2, Mar-Apr 2004, 3-11. Ahmed Rashid, Taliban : Islam,
oil and the new great game in central Asia, new rev edn, Tauris Oct 2008 Rodric
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Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89. (2011). R.IX.e.9 BRA Martin
McCauley, Afghanistan and Central Asia: A Modern History (2002). K Gannon, 'Afghanistan
Unbound', Foreign Affairs, 83, 3, May-June 2004, 35-46 (in SHL). D Herspring & P Rutland,
'Putin and Russian Foreign Policy', in Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, ed D
Herspring (Rowman & Littlefield 2003 pbk), ch 11. Donaldson & Nogee, ch 9. Mike Bowker,
Russia, America and the Islamic World (2007) Andrei P. Tsygankov, Russophobia:
Anti-Russian Lobby and American Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan 2009. R.IX.f.3 TSY
Global Responses to Terrorism: 9/11, Afghanistan and Beyond, ed M Buckley & R Fawn
(2003) pbk. Jason Burke, Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror (2003). Mariam Abou
Zahab & Olivier Roy, Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection (due March 2004)
pbk. Mark Galeotti, Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War (1995).
18. Russia and the Middle East. War in Iraq (2003-)
(12 items)
How did the USSR view (a) Israel after 1967 (b) the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and
Ayatollah Khomeini (c) Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? Who were the
main Soviet allies or clients in the region?
How have Russia's relations with Israel changed since October 1991, when the USSR
restored diplomatic relations with it?
Was Russia divided over its attitude to Iraq at the time of the US-led invasion of March
2003? What are Russia's main interests in Iraq today?
Why has Iran become important to Russia? Consider the transfer of nuclear technology,
the division of resources in the Caspian Sea, and interaction with Iran in the Caucasus,
Central Asia and Afghanistan.
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | pp 296-317, 350-58, 364-69
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Petro, Nicolai N., Rubinstein, Alvin Z.,
c1997
Book | Essential | ch 11.
J Mankoff, Russian Foreign Policy, (2011 pbk), ch 3 G Golan, 'Russia and the Iraq War: Was
Putin's Policy a Failure?' Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 37, 4, December 2004,
429-59.
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Russia and the Middle East: towards a new foreign policy - Nizameddin, Talal, 1999
Book | Recommended
_____, 'Squaring the Middle East Triangle in Lebanon: Russia and the Iran-Syria-Hizbollah
Nexus', Slavonic and East European Review, 86, 3, July 2008, 475-500. 'Russia and the
Middle East Crises', Russian Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch, no. 98, 6 July 2011. A
Belkin, 'US-Russian Relations and the Global Counter-Terrorist Campaign', Journal Of Slavic
Military Studies, special issue, 'Russia's Security Policy and the War on Terror', 17, 1,
March 2004, 13-28. Andrej Kreutz, Russia in the Middle East: Friend or Foe? Praeger 2007
Mark A Smith, 'Igor Ivanov on Iraq and the Struggle for a New World Order', Conflict
Studies Research Centre, Occasional Brief No 102, 3 February 2004. C Saivetz, 'Russia,
Iraq, and Iran: Business, Politics, or Both?', in Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian
Business in Foreign and Security Relations ed A Wenger, J Perovic & R Orttung (2006), pp
114-32 R Freedman, 'Putin, Iran and the Nuclear Weapons Issue', Problems of
Post-Communism, 53, 2, Mar-Apr 2006, 39-48 R Einhorn & G Samore, 'Ending Russian
Assistance to Iran's Nuclear Bomb', Survival, 44, 2, Summer 2002, 51-70, in SHL T
Bukkvoll, 'Arming the Ayatollahs: Economic Lobbies in Russia's Iran Policy', Problems of
Post-Communism, 49, 6, Nov-Dec 2002, 29-41. Thomas Ambrosio, Challenging America's
Global Preeminence: Russia's Quest for Multipolarity (2005), ch 8 M Katz, 'Saudi-Russian
Relations since 9/11', ibid., 51, 2, Mar-Apr 2004, 3-11. _____, 'Putin's Foreign Policy towards
Syria', Middle East Review of International Affairs, 10, 1, March 2006, 53-62 J L Black,
Vladimir Putin and the New World Order (2004), ch 12. O Eran, 'Russia in the Middle East:
The Yeltsin Era and Beyond', in Russia between East and West, ed G Gorodetsky (2003),
ch 14. Yevgeny Primakov, Russia and the Arabs: Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from
the Cold War to the Present, Basic Books 2009. R.IX.f.3 PRI
Russia and the challengers: Russian alignment with China, Iran and Iraq in the unipolar era
- Belopolsky, Helen, Zielonka, Jan, 2008
Book | Recommended
The Middle East's Relations with Asia and Russia, ed H Carter & A Ehteshami (2004). E
Morse & J Richard, 'The Battle for Energy Dominance', Foreign Affairs, 81, 2, Mar-Apr 2002,
16-31 (Russia, Saudi Arabia and the USA) (in SHL) Robert O Freedman, 'Can Russia be a
Partner for NATO in the Middle East?', in NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First
Century, ed A Braun (2008), ch 8. _____, Russian Policy Toward the Middle East since the
Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Yeltsin Legacy and the Challenge for Putin (2001) John W
Parker, Persian Dreams: Moscow and Teheran since the Fall of the Shah. Potomac 2009
On the Soviet period, see also
Robert O Freedman, Soviet Policy toward Israel under Gorbachev (1991). _____, Moscow
and the Middle East: Soviet Policy since the Invasion of Afghanistan (1991).
'Moscow and the Gulf War - Robert O. Freedman, 1991
Article | Recommended
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Galia Golan, Soviet Policies in the Middle East: From World War Two to Gorbachev, (1990).
_____, Moscow and the Middle East: New Thinking in Regional Conflict (1992). _____,
'Gorbachev's Difficult Time in the Gulf', Political Science Quarterly, 107, 2, Summer 1992,
213-30. (In SHL.) Fred Halliday, Threat from the East? Soviet Policy from Iran and
Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa, rev edn, (1982). _____, 'Islam and Soviet Foreign Policy',
Journal of Communist Studies, 2, 4, March 1987, 37-54. George W Breslauer, Soviet
Strategy in the Middle East (1989). The Soviets, Their Successors and the Middle East, ed R
Hollis (1993). Alexei Vassiliev, Russian Policy in the Middle East: From Messianism to
Pragmatism (1993). Martin Sicker, The Bear and the Lion: Soviet Imperialism and Iran
(1989). O M Smolansky & B M Smolansky, The USSR and Iraq: The Soviet Quest for
Influence (1991). Efraim Karsh, Soviet Policy towards Syria since 1970 (1991). G Fuller,
'Moscow and the Gulf War', Foreign Affairs, 70, 3, Summer 1991, 55-76. A Rubinstein,
'Gorbachev and the Middle East', Soviet Jewish Affairs, 17, 2, Summer-Autumn 1987, 3-16,
and many other articles in the same journal, now renamed East European Jewish Affairs.
19. The foreign policy of Putin and Medvedev: gains and losses (9 items)
In what ways did Putin make a difference to Russia's relations with the West, and in which
areas has there been little change? Was Russia's response to the events of 11 September
2001 a turning-point, or a further development of existing policies?
Putin tried to 'have it all' (to use Bobo Lo's phrase), that is, to maintain good relations with
the USA and the EU while pursuing a repressive course in Chechnia, selling arms to China
and continuing to help 'rogue states' such as Iran. Why did relations with the West
deteriorate from 2003 or 2004?
Despite hopes that Medvedev, inaugurated in May 2008, might bring a more open
approach to foreign policy, in August 2008 Russian troops were introduced into Georgia.
The growth of American influence within parts of the former Soviet Union has become a
point of conflict between Moscow and Washington. Does Russian policy make more likely
that NATO will embrace Ukraine and Georgia more quickly?
How successful has been the attempt of Medvedev and Obama to 'reset' the Russian-US
relationship? Consider missile defence, nuclear disarmament, transit to Afghanistan, Iran
and human rights.
Under what conditions might a new Cold War develop?
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How successful, overall, have Putin and Medvedev been in protecting Russia's security,
maintaining its influence and creating an international climate favourable for its economic
development?
The foreign policy of Russia: changing systems, enduring interests - Donaldson, Robert H.,
Nogee, Joseph L., c2009
Book | Essential | ch 9
Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity - Tsygankov, Andrei P.,
c2010
Book | Essential | chs 5 & 6
Observations on Russia's Foreign Relations Under Putin - George W. Breslauer, 2009-10-1
Article | Recommended
The Legacy of the Color Revolutions for Russian Politics and Foreign Policy - Jeanne L.
Wilson, 2010-3-1
Article | Recommended
Russian foreign policy: the return of great power politics - Mankoff, Jeffrey, c2009
Book | Recommended | ch 3 and Conclusion
B Lo, Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (2003) pbk. Roy Allison,
Margot Light and Stephen White, Putin's Russia and the Enlarged Europe (2006), esp ch 9
by R Allison Eugene B. Rumer, 'Russian Foreign Policy beyond Putin'. Adelphi Papers, 390,
2007, esp chs 1 & 2 A Monaghan, '"An Enemy at the Gates" or "From Victory to Victory"?
Russian Foreign Policy', International Affairs, 84, 4, July 2008, 717-33 A Pravda, 'Putin's
Foreign Policy after 11 September: Radical or Revolutionary?', in Russia between East and
West, ed G Gorodetsky (2003), ch 5. D Trenin, 'Russia Leaves the West', Foreign Affairs,
85, 4, Jul-Aug 2006, 87-96 (in SHL). D Suslov, 'From Parity to Reasonable Sufficiency',
Russia in Global Affairs, no. 4, 2010, pp. 51-64. R Weitz, 'Illusive Visions and Practical
Realities: Russia, NATO and Missile Defence', Survival, 52, 4, Aug-Sept 2010, 99-120. N
Sokov, 'Missile Defence: Towards Practical Cooperation with Russia', Survival, 52, 4,
Aug-Sept 2010, 121-30. C Browning, 'Reassessing Putin's Project: Reflections on IR Theory
and the West', Problems of Post-Communism, 55, 4, July-August 2008, 3-13.
Russian Foreign Policy and the Global Political Environment - Derek Averre, 2008-9-1
Article | Recommended
J Mankoff, 'Russian Foreign Policy and the United States after Putin', Problems of
Post-Communism, 55, 4, July-August 2008, 42-51. 'US-Russian Relations', Russian
Analytical Digest, www.res.ethz.ch no. 66, 20 October 2009. A Arbatov, 'Is a New Cold War
Imminent?' Russia in Global Affairs, 5, 3, Jul-Sep 2007, 84-97; S Lavrov, 'Containing Russia:
Back to the Future?', ibid., 5, 4, Oct-Dec 2007, 8-22; S Karaganov, 'An New Epoch of
Confrontation', ibid., pp 23-36; R Lyne, 'Russia and the West: Is Confrontation Inevitable?'
ibid., 6, 1, Jan-Mar 2008, 86-102, and further articles in ibid. A Stent, 'Restoration and
Revolution in Putin's Foreign Policy', Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 6, Aug 2008, 1089-1106 D
Polikanov & G Timmins, 'Russian Foreign Policy under Putin', in Russian Politics under
Putin, ed C Ross (2004) pbk, ch 12. O Antonenko, 'Putin's Gamble', Survival, 43, 4, Winter
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2001, 49-59 (in SHL). A Lieven, 'The Secret Policemen's Ball: The United States, Russia and
the International Order after 11 September', International Affairs, 78, 2, Apr 2002, 245-59
Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, ed D Herspring, 3rd edn (Rowman &
Littlefield 2007 pbk), ch on foreign policy. T Colton et al., 'Russia in the Year 2004',
Post-Soviet Affairs, 21, 1, Jan-Mar 2005, 1-25, esp pp 12-25. C Saivetz, 'Making the Best of
a Bad Hand: An Assessment of Current Trends in Russian Foreign Policy', Post-Soviet
Affairs, 22, 2, Apr-Jun 2006, 166-88 Thomas Ambrosio, Challenging America's Global
Preeminence: Russia's Quest for Multipolarity (2005) J L Black, Vladimir Putin and the New
World Order (2004) pbk. Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy, ed R Fawn (2003) pbk.
Lilia Shevtsova, Putin's Russia 2nd edn (Carnegie 2005 pbk), esp pp 196-220, 231-50.
Richard Sakwa, Putin: Russia's Choice, 2nd edn, 2008, pbk ch 10 _____, '"New Cold War" or
Twenty Years' Crisis? Russia and International Politics', International Affairs, 84, 2, March
2008, 241-67. D Simes, 'Losing Russia: The Costs of Renewed Confrontation', Foreign
Affairs, 86, 6, Nov-Dec 2007, 36-52 Dmitri V Trenin, Getting Russia Right (2007) pbk W
Laqueur, 'Moscow's Modernization Dilemma: Is Russia Charting a New Foreign Policy?'
Foreign Affairs, 89, 6, Nov-Dec 2010, 153-60 Jeffrey Mankoff, GENERATIONAL CHANGE
AND THE FUTURE OF U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS. Journal of International Affairs,
Spring/Summer2010, Vol. 63 Issue 2, p1-17. (SHL)
PJSD 21.7.11 marked for digitization 23.3.12
Digitised readings (12 items)
Illusion and mythmaking - Lo, Bobo
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Russian security engagement with NATO - Allison, Roy
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Russia, Iraq, Iran - Saivetz, Carol R.
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Neighbors - Yeltsin, Boris
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Relations between socialists and capitalists II : peaceful coexistence from Khrushchev to
Brezhnev - Light, Margot
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Prague 1968 : Spring and Fall - Pearson, Raymond
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
The period of detente and the Brezhnev leadership 1970 - 1980 - Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
De-Stalinization and Soviet foreign policy : the roots of 'new thinking' - Malcolm, Neil
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
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The policy-making environment - Lo, Bobo
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Foreign policy thinking - Light, Margot
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
Russia and China in the new central Asia : the security agenda - Berryman, John
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
The beleaguered Soviet State, 1917-1939 - Rubinstein, Alvin Z.
Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading
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