Russian foreign policy in the 21st century / edited by Roger E. Kanet.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Russian foreign policy in the 21st century / Roger E. Kanet -- History, Russia and the West, and cold wars / Peter Shearman -- Aims and means in Russian foreign policy / Ingmar Oldberg -- Russian modernization pathways: foreign policy implications / Graeme P. Herd -- Russia's "soft power" in the Putin epoch / Vladimir Rukavishnikov -- Russia and Georgia-- from confrontation to war: what is next / Bertil Nygren -- The Russo-Georgian War ad EU mediation / Thomas Forsberg and Antti Seppo -- Russia's new "Moroe Doctrine" / Mette Skak -- Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus after the Georgia conflict / Charles E. Ziegler -- Medvedev's "fourteen points": Russia's proposal for a new European security architecture / Nikita Lomagin -- From the "New World Order" to "resetting relations": two decades of US-Russia relations / Roger E. Kanet -- Russia, NATO enlargement, and "regions of privileged interests" / John Berryman -- Revisiting the EU's European neighborhood policy: the eastern partnership and Russia / Joan DeBardeleben -- The EU-Russia energy relationship: European, Russian, commo interests? / Susanne Nies.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union expectations were high in both Russia and the West that a 'new world order' was emerging in which Russia and the other former Soviet republics would join the Western community of nations. That has not occurred. In Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century a distinguished group of analysts from Russia, Europe and North America explains the reasons for this failure and assesses likely future developments in that relationship. The authors explore the importance of Western policies in the 1990s in 'nationalizing' Russian views of their interests; the commitment of President Putin to rebuilding Russia as a great power (beginning in former Soviet space); and the deterioration of Russian relations with the European Union and the United States during the first decade of the 21st century.