Russian Foreign Policy in Transition : Concepts And Realities

Through a compilation of foreign policy documents and statements, harnessed together by a section of analytic works, this book seeks to highlight the shift in Russian foreign policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This compilation presents the work of formative scholars in this field who are concerned with the evolution of Russia Foreign policy thinking and behavior. This volume compiles critical documents and statements (treaties, addresses and articles) that deal with the formation of new conceptions of security in the New World order. The articles critically evaluate the implications of these new initiatives and lend insight to these documents and statements in practice. They address a wide range of topics from the crisis in Kosovo to domestic Russian policy, with an eye to the future of Russian policy.

Andrei Melville is professor at the Department of Political Science at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. He has conducted massive survey research projects on public opinion as well as on the perspectives of different elites within the establishment, and has written memoranda for the Russian government on the basis of his opinion research.

Tatiana Shakleina is the Chair of Foreign Policy at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences.