Russia as a Great Power. Dimensions of security under Putin
Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg
and Christer Pursiainen (eds.)
After a period of relative weakness and instability
during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security
player in world politics, a shift that will have profound effects
for regional and global stability and power relations.
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current
security situation, addressing such topics as the type of player
the new Russia will be in the field of security, the essence of
Russian security policy, the sources, capabilities and priorities
of the country's security policy, and its prospects for the future.
One important conclusion to emerge is that, while Russian foreign
policy under Vladimir Putin has become more pragmatic and responsive
both to problems and opportunities, the growing lack of checks and
balances in domestic politics makes political integration with the
West very difficult and gives the president very great freedom in
applying Russia's growing power abroad. This book analyses both
external and internal dimensions of security, along with so-called
hard and soft security issues and the intricate interplay between
them.
This book will appeal to Russian and Eastern European scholars and
academics looking for the most up-to-date and erudite analysis of
Russia's current security situation.
Jakob Hedenskog is a researcher at the Swedish Defence Research
Agency. He has published extensively on Russia and the CIS, including
The Ukrainian Dilemma: Relations with Russia and the West in the
Context of the 2004 Presidential Elections. Vilhelm Konnander
coordinated the practical editing of the present volume. He currently
works with security policy issues and those related to the Baltic
Sea area in the Department for European Security Policy in the Swedish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Bertil Nygren is an associate
professor in political science at Stockholm University, and has
published extensively on Russian domestic and foreign policy. Ingmar
Oldberg is Deputy Director of Research at the Swedish Defence
Research Agency and has published extensively on Russian foreign,
regional and military affairs. Christer Pursiainen is Senior
Research Fellow at the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Nordregio)
in Stockholm and Chief Expert on EU-RF relations at the Russian-European
Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP) in Moscow. His publications include
Russian Foreign Policy and International Relations Theory.
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: Dimensions of external security
1 Russia as a great power
IVER B. NEUMANN
2 Foreign policy priorities under Putin: a tour
d'horizon
INGMAR OLDBERG
3 Russia and NATO: community of values or community
of interests?
JAKUB M. GODZIMIRSKI
4 The logic of foreign and security policy change
in Russia
METTE SKAK
PART II: Dimensions of regional security
5 What prospects for Russia in the Baltic Sea
region? Cooperation or isolation?
VILHELM KONNANDER
6 Filling `the gap': Russian security policy towards
Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova under Putin
JAKOB HEDENSKOG
7 Russia's relations with Georgia under Putin:
the impact of 11 September
BERTIL NYGREN
8 Understanding; Russia's foreign policy change:
the cases of Central Asia and Iraq
LENA JONSON
PART III: Internal dimensions of security
9 Putin, the army and military reform
ISABELLE FACON
10 Russian economic security in a medium-term
perspective
ROLAND GOTZ
11 Forming a new security identity in modern Russia
NIKITA LOMAGIN
12 Nuclear safety and environmental risks of north-west
Russia: a source of cooperation and conflict
CHRISTER PURSIAINEN
PART IV: Terrorism: a new security threat
13 Russia's approach to the fight against terrorism
EKATERINA STEPANOVA
14 Counter-terrorism as a building block for Putin's
regime
PAVEL K. BAEV
Conclusions and perspectives
Index
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