Foreword

About the Authors

1. Multi-factor equilibrium: a new doctrine for Russia in crisis?

Alexei D. Voskressenski

PART I: THEORY, HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL POLICIES

2. Contemplating on International Relations at the Juncture of the Second and Third Millennia

Vladimir Miasnikov

3. Russian Grand Strategy Towards China

Alexei D. Voskressenski

4. Perception of China by Russian Foreign Policy Elite

Alexei D. Voskressenski

5. Russia's Strategy in Southeast Asia

Vladimir Miasnikov

6. Attitudes of the National Post-Soviet Governments and Domestic Social Groups Towards the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Integration in the Post-Soviet Territories

Marina Strezhneva

PART II: DEFENSE STRATEGY, GEOPOLITICAL AND INTERNAL SECURITY ISSUES IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND RUSSIA WITHIN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTEXTS.

7. Russia in a Contemporary World: Geopolitical, Socio-Economic, Ethnic and Social Problems

Vitaly A. Barishpoletz

Valery L. Manilov

Vladimir S. Pirumov

8. Strategic Decision Making in the Former Soviet Union

Vitaly N. Tsygichko

9. Key Issues of Russian National Defense Policy Within Modern Geopolitical Context

Vitaly N. Tsygichko

10. Emergency and Disaster Policy in the Former Soviet Union and Russia Within National Security Context

Boris Porfiriev

11. Role of the US and Russian Parliaments in the Foreign Policy-Making Process

Natalie Novgorodskaya

12. Russian Missile Technology and Nuclear Reactor Transfers to Iran

John P. Hardt

13. Russia's Opportunity to Enter a New Stage in Transition

Stuart D. Goldman

Kenneth Katzman

Robert D. Shuey

Carl E. Behrens

Index