Russia as a great power : dimensions of security under Putin / edited by Jakob Hedenskog [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Book cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Russia as a great power; 2 Foreign policy prioriries under putin; 3 Russia and NATO; 4 The logic of foreign and security policy change in Russia; 5 What prospects for Russia in the Baltic Sea region; 6 Filling 'the gap'; 7 Russia's relations with Georgia under Putin; 8 Understanding Russia's foreign policy change; 9 Putin, the army and military reform; 10 Russian economic security in a medium-term perspective.

11 Forming a new security identity in modern Russia12 Nuclear safety and environmental risks of north-west Russia; 13 Russia's approach to the fight against terrorism; 14 Counter-terrorism as a building block for Putin's regime; Conclusions and perspectives; Index.

The motivation for this book is the need for a renewed analysis of Russia, which, after a period of relative weakness and instability during most ofthe 1990s, has again reappeared in world politics as a major securityplayer, claiming the status of a great power. This is partly due to the factthat, with the advent of Vladimir Putin as president, Russia gainedincreased political stability, and partly because the Russian economystarted to show steady growth. Russia made skilful use of the policywindows of opportunity that were opened to it as a consequence of theterrorist attacks in the United Sta.

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