Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Reality, Illusion and Mythmaking [Hardcover]

In the first comprehensive treatment of its kind, Bobo Lo examines the course of Russian foreign policy in the decade following the Soviet collapse. Adopting a conceptual approach, he identifies the principal ideological and institutional factors that have influenced the thinking of decisionmaking behind the policies. Bobo Lo challenges many of the conventional assumptions that have dominated much of the preceding literature on Russian foreign policy.Acknowledgements Introduction The Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy Recasting the Ideological Debate Illusion and Mythmaking The Geopolitical Strain A Question of Priorities: The Practice of Foreign Policy Towards Normalization? Putin and Beyond Bibliography Index

'[A]n interesting and innovative treatment of Russian foreign policy.' - International Affairs

BOBO LO is the Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Centre. He has written extensively on Russian foreign and security policy as an independent researcher and previously, as first secretary and then deputy head of mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow (1995-99). He is the author of Soviet Labour Ideology and the Collapse of State.