Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ideas and political debates in theoretical approaches to foreign policy development; Foreign policy ideas and their manifestation in key foreign policy orientations; Russian domestic politics and the evolution in debates about foreign and military policy towards the CIS states, 1991 6; Russia's political debates and military involvement in the Moldova Transdniestria conflict; Russia's political debates and military involvement in the Georgia Abkhazia conflict
Russia's political debates and military involvement in the Tajik conflictConclusions; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index
Summary
This book provides a systematic study of Russian foreign policy and the separatist and civil military conflicts in the former Soviet republics following the collapse of the Soviet Union
