Russia

1. Introduction: The Consolidation of Russia’s Role in World Affairs
Roger E. Kanet

Part I. Russian Strategy Under Putin

2. Russia’s Great Power Ambitions and Policy Under Putin
Ingmar Oldberg

3. Forming a New Security Identity Under Vladimir Putin
Nikita A. Lomagin

4. Choices for Russia: Preserving Inherited Geopolitics Through Emergent Global and European Realities
Vladimir Rukavishnikov

Part II. Russia, the CIS, and the World Beyond

5. Russia’s Transdniestria Policy: Means, Ends and Great Power Trajectories
Graeme P. Herd

6. Putin’s Attempts to Subjugate Georgia: From Sabre-Rattling to the Power of the Purse
Bertil Nygren

7. Governance and Diplomacy as Attributes of a Great Power: Russia and the Three Enclaves — Kaliningrad, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan
Susanne Nies

8. Russia and China in the New Central Asia: The Security Agenda
John Berryman

9. The US Challenge to Russian Influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Roger E. Kanet, Larisa Homarac

10. Russia, Iran and the Nuclear Question: The Putin Record
Robert O. Freedman

11. Conclusion: Russia as a Re-Emerging Great Power
Roger E. Kanet

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Political Science, Political History, US Politics