Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony

ISBN-13: 9781032172989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 388 str.

Domitilla Sagramoso

Opis

This book examines the nature of Russia’s relations with the former Soviet states (FSS), in particular with countries which formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, and seeks to assess whether there has been a resurgence of imperialism since the collapse of the USSR.

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.