Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415374781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 267 str.

Andreas Wenger; Robert W. Orttung; Jeronim Perovic

Opis

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups. Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of Russian business, legal and illegal, within the context of Russia's domestic transition, this book considers how far Russia's foreign and security policy is shaped by business. It considers a wide range of issues, including energy, the arms trade, international drug flows, and human trafficking, and examines the impact of Russian business in Russia's dealings with Western and Eastern Europe, the Caspian, the Caucasus and the Far East.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Russian Business Power as a Source of Transnational Conflict and Cooperation  2. The Role of Business in Russian Foreign and Security Relations  Part 2: Russian Energy: Regional Power and Dependency  3. Russian Energy Companies and the Enlarged European Union  4. Russian Energy Companies in the New Eastern Europe: The Cases of Ukraine and Belarus  5. Russian Energy Companies in the Caspian and Central Eurasian Region: Expanding Southward  6. Russia, Iraq, and Iran: Business, Politics, or Both?  7. Russian and Transnational Energy Companies: Conflict and Cooperation in Pacific Russia  Part 3: Beyond Energy: Emerging Business Networks and Human Security  8. Russian Business, the Arms Trade, and Regional Security  9. Russian Banks and Russian Diplomacy: Occasionally Rather Embarrassing  10. The Drug Trade in Russia  11. Uncharted Territory: Russian Business Activity in Abkhazia and South Ossetia  12. Timber in the Russian Far East and Potential Transborder Conflict