Russia and its Near Neighbours

1. Introduction: Russia and its Near Neighbours
Maria Raquel Freire, Roger E. Kanet

Part I. Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy

2. Russia’s ‘Vital and Exclusive’ National Interests in the Near Abroad
Ria Laenen

3. Domestic Influences on Russian Foreign Policy: Status, Interests and Ressentiment
Hanna Smith

4. Nationalist Grievance and Russian Foreign Policy: The Case of Georgia
Luke March

5. The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War: Which Side Went First?
John B. Dunlop

Part II. Russia and the CIS

6. Whose ‘Near Abroad’? Dilemmas in Russia’s Declared Sphere of Privileged Interests
John Russell

7. Russia’s European Security Treaty and the Kyrgyz Crisis
Graeme P. Herd

8. Central Asia in Russian and US Foreign Policy: Between Continuity and ‘Reset’
Licínia Simão

9. Russia’s Foreign Policy in Central Asia: From Yeltsin to Medvedev
Diana Digol

Part III. Energy in Russian-CIS Relations

10. Strategy, Security and Russian Resource Diplomacy
Matthew Sussex

11. Russian Resource Policies towards the CIS Countries
Bertil Nygren

12. Russia’s Energy Policies in Eurasia: Empowerment or Entrapment?
Maria Raquel Freire

13. Russian Energy Policy in the South Caucasus
Lilia A. Arakelyan, Roger E. Kanet

14. Conclusion: Russia and its Near Neighbours
Maria Raquel Freire, Roger E. Kanet

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, International Relations, European Politics, Political Science, Military and Defence Studies, US Politics