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Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century Putin, Medvedev and Beyond

By Marcel De Haas Copyright 2010
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines Russia’s external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond. The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia’s background in the former Soviet Union as well as close ties with the upcoming new powers of China and India served as spring-boards towards regaining an... Read more

Introduction  1. Structure of Putin’s Foreign Security Policy (2000-2008)  2. Implementation of Putin’s Foreign Security Policy  3. Structure of Medvedev’s Foreign Security Policy (2008-2009)  4. Implementation of Medvedev’s Foreign Security Policy  5. The Russian-Georgian Armed Conflict of August 2008  6. Assessment of Russia’s Foreign Security Policy (2000-2009) and Outlook beyond Medvedev.  Bibliography

Biography

Lieutenant-Colonel (Royal Netherlands Army, ret.) Dr Marcel de Haas (1961) is a Senior Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague, and a Senior Researcher at the Russian Studies Centre of the University of Groningen. His fields of expertise are defence and security policy of the Netherlands, Russia and the CIS.