Introduction 1. A Foreign Policy in Transition 2. Putin’s Foreign Policy – A Matter of Interest 3. The Domestic Political Setting 4. The Economic Picture 5. The Military Factor. Conclusion
Biography
Eugene B. Rumer is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC. Previously, he served at the State Department, on the staff of the National Security Council and at RAND. He has written extensively on Russia and other former Soviet states. Educated at Boston and Georgetown Universities, he also holds a doctorate from MIT. In 2007, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the IISS in London. The views expressed in this paper, which he wrote while in residence at the IISS, are his own, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the National Defense University, the US Department of Defense or the US government.
