Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony

ISBN-13: 9780415562270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 368 str.

Domitilla Sagromoso

Opis

By examining Russia's military, economic, political, and diplomatic policies towards the former Soviet states since 1991, this book assesses whether Russian leaders have been able to discard the country's imperial legacy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. What is Russia? Russia’s Foreign Policy Orientation under Yeltsin  2. Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States  3. CIS Integration under Yevgeny Primakov: Russia’s Post-Imperial Model  4. Russia’s CIS Gas Trade during Yeltsin’s Presidencies: Towards Market-based Relations?  5. The Outbreak of Military Conflicts: Russia’s Difficulties in Discarding its Imperial Legacy  6. Vladimir Putin at the helm of Russia: A return of Russia’s Hegemony?  7. CIS Economic Integration Gathers Speed  8. Vladimir Putin Strengthens CIS Military Integration: A New Military Bloc emerges  9. Separatist Conflicts in Eurasia: Russia’s Hegemonic Power is Reinforced  10. From Putin to Medvedev… and back to Putin: Whither Russia?  11. The Eurasian Economic Union: A neo-Imperial Paradigm?  12. Russia’s CIS Gas Trade: an Instrument of Russia’s Hegemony?  13. The Russian-Georgian War and its Aftermath: Russia’s Neo-Empire  14. Russia’s Annexation of Crimea and the War in the Ukrainian: Russia’s Neo-Empire expands  Conclusion

O autorze

Domitilla Sagramoso is a Lecturer in Security and Development at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK.