Bertil Nygren

F.D., docent
Ph.D., Associate Professor

E-mail: bertil.nygren@statsvet.su.se

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The Rebuilding of Greater Russia

This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate 'Greater Russia', that is, a Russia that controls most of the territory of the former Soviet Union. It shows the subtlety of the means of control, often through creating economic dependencies in the 'near abroad', including exploit­ing energy dependency, through prolonging other political and military depen­dencies, and sometimes through traditional 'power politics'. It argues that after seven years in power the results of this strategy are beginning to show.

It pro­vides comprehensive coverage of Russia's relations to the former Soviet territo­ries of the CIS countries, including Ukraine and Putin's role in the events surrounding the 'Orange Revolution', Belarus and the attempts to form a union, the Caucasus and Russia's role in the various conflicts, Moldova, including the Transdniester conflict, and Central Asia. This is an important subject, for inter­national relations scholars generally, not just Russian studies experts.

London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbrevations
Map

PART I
The Russian regional security complex and Russian foreign policy towards the CIS countries

1. Introduction

2. The regional organizations of the Russia-led regional security complex

PART II
Russia and the European security sub-complex - relations with Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova

3. Russia and Ukraine

4. Russia and Belarus

5. Russia and Moldova

PART III
Russia and the Caucasus security sub-complex - relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and the regional conflicts

6. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

7. Russia and Azerbaijan

8. Russia and Armenia

9. Russia and Georgia

10. The Caucasus, the EU, NATO and the United States

PART IV
Russia and the Asian regional sub-complex - relations with Kyrgyztan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkemnistan

11. The Caspian Sea basin - borders, oil and gas

12. Russia and Kazakhstan

13. Russia and Kyrgyztan

14. Russia and Tajikistan

15. Russia and Uzbekistan

16. Russia and Turkmenistan

17. Central Asia, China, NATO and the United States

PART V
Russia as a regional great power - analysis of the past and future of Putin's attempt to rebuild Greater Russia - objectives, strategies, policies, instruments and prospects for success

18. Conclusions

Notes
References
Index