ABSTRACT

An original and challenging examination of how to transform post-Sovietological study of Soviet and Russian foreign policy into a more integrated part of the Social Sciences and International Relations Theory. This book represents the first detailed and sustained synthesis international relations theory and Soviet/Russian foreign and security policy in academic literature.

chapter 1|7 pages

The Problem and the Argument

chapter 2|26 pages

How to Evaluate Theories?

chapter 4|85 pages

Russia and the International System

chapter 5|25 pages

Russian Foreign Policy Decision-Making