Russian Foreign Policy in Transition

Concepts and Realities

Andrew Melville, Tatiana Shakleina, Andrew Melville, Tatiana Shakleina

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9789637326172
• eBook ISBN: 9789633863909
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: 21st Century History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Through a compilation of foreign policy documents and statements, harnessed together by a section of analytic works, this book seeks to highlight the shift in Russian foreign policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This compilation presents the work of formative scholars in this field who are concerned with the evolution of Russia Foreign policy thinking and behavior. This volume compiles critical documents and statements (treaties, addresses and articles) that deal with the formation of new conceptions of security in the New World order. The articles critically evaluate the implications of these new initiatives and lend insight to these documents and statements in practice. They address a wide range of topics from the crisis in Kosovo to domestic Russian policy, with an eye to the future of Russian policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• PART 1: DOCUMENTS
• 1. “Belovezhskiie Agreements” (1991)
• 2. Collective Security Treaty (1992)
• 3. Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States (1993)
• 4. Foreign Policy Conception of The Russian Federation (1993)
• 5. Agreement Between the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and the People’s Republic of China on Confidence-Building in the Military Field in the Border Area (“Shanghai Declaration”) (1996)
• 6. Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security Between the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1997)
• 7. Union Treaty Between Belarus and Russia (1997)
• 8. Foreign Policy Conception of the Russian Federation (2000)
• 9. Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation (2000)
• 10. National Security Conception of the Russian Federation (2000)
• 11. Dushanbe Declaration by the Heads of State of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China,the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan (2000)
• 12. Joint Statement by the Presidents of the Russian Federationand the United States of America on Principles of Strategic Stability (2000)
• 13. Treaty on the Establishment of the Eurasian Economic Community (2000)
• 14. Strategy for Development of Relations Between the Russian Federation and the European Union 2000–2010 (2000)
• 15. Declaration on the Creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2001)
• 16. Treaty Between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on Strategic Offensive Reductions (2002)
• 17. Declaration by Heads of State and Government of the Russian Federation and NATO Member States (2002)
• PART 2: STATEMENTS
• 1. Strategy for Partnership
• 2. International Relations on the Eve of the 21st Century: Problems and Prospects
• 3. Russia at the Turn of the Millennium
• 4. Russian Foreign Policy on the Eve of the 21st Century: Problems of Formation, Development and Continuity
• 5. On the New Version of the National Security Conception of the Russian Federation
• PART 3: ANALYSIS
• 1. International Relations after the Kosovo Crisis
• 2. The Syndrome of “Absorption” in International Politics
• 3. Russia’s Security in a Multipolar World
• 4. The Phenomenon of Globalization and National Security Interests
• 5. A New Turn in Russian–American Relations
• 6. The Russian Bridge Over the Atlantic
• 7. Back to the Concert
• 8. The Backside of Foreign Policy: Internal Factors in the System of International Ties, Obligations and Projects of the Russian Federation
• 9. Foreign Policy Therapy “a la Dr Putin”
• 10. Putin’s “New Course” Is Now Firmly Set: What Next?
• 11. The Chances and Challenges of the New World
• 12. Do We Need Reform of Russian Foreign Policy?
• About the Contributors
• Index