Russia's foreign policy

Introduction / Margot Light & David Cadier -- Part I. Perceptions and ideas in Russian foreign policy -- Russian foreign policy themes in official documents and speeches: tracing continuity and change / Margot Light (LSE) -- Russian foreign policy as exercise in nation-building / Dimitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow) -- How Vladimir Putin's worldview shapes Russian foreign policy / Fiona Hill (Brookings Institution) -- Part II. Domestic politics -- Dualism at home and abroad: Russian foreign policy neo-revisionism and bicontinentalism / Richard Sakwa (Kent University) -- The rising cost of Russia's authoritarian foreign policy / Marie Mendras (Sciences Po) -- Russia's foreign policy and soft power / Tomila Lankina and Kinga Niemczyk (LSE) -- Part III. External relations -- Mismatched partners: US-Russia relations after the Cold War / Andrew Kuchins (CSIS) -- Refracting Europe: biopolitical conservatism and art protest in Putin's Russia / Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu) and Alexandra Yatsyk (Kazan Federal University) -- Policies towards the post-Soviet space: the Eurasian economic union as an attempt to develop Russia's structural power? / David Cadier (LSE) -- Russia and Asia-Pacific: diversification or sinocentrism? / Natasha Kuhrt (King's College) -- Russia in international organisations: the shift from defence to offence / Ian Bond (Centre for European Reform) -- Conclusion: foreign policy as the continuation of domestic politics by other means / David Cadier and Margot.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-239) and index..