1st Edition

Russian Governance in the 21st Century Geo-Strategy, Geopolitics and New Governance

By Irina Isakova Copyright 2006
    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2006. A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approaches to geopolitics and the most appropriate geopolitical development patterns that influenced the transformation of Russian foreign policies and military strategic thinking on the eve of the 21st century.

    Introduction; Part 1 Geopolitics, Geo-Strategy and Foreign Policy; Chapter 1 Geo-Strategy and Russia's Vision of the New World Order; Chapter 2 Practical Politics and International Relations; Chapter 3 Strategic Part nerships in Brief; Chapter 4 Testing Geopolitical Convictions; Part 2 Domestic Reforms; Chapter 5 The Strategy of Reforms; Chapter 6 The Litmus Test; Chapter 7 Military Reform and Russia's Future Defence; Part 3 Present and Future Integration Channels; Chapter 8 New Security Systems and Russia's Long-Term Engagement Strategy; Conclusion

    Biography

    Dr Irina Isakova (PhD, ISKRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences) is an Associate Fellow at RUSI and Specialist Adviser on Russia and the FSU to the House of Commons Defence Committee. Previously she was Research Fellow at King's College London; Research Associate at the IISS, London; Head of Section at the Institute of the USA and Canada Studies, Moscow, and served as a foreign policy expert at the Foreign Affairs Committee, RF Federation Council. She was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institute (Washington, DC).