The New Russian Foreign Policy [Paperback]

Michael Mandelbaum (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 087609213X | ISBN-13: 978-0876092132 | Publication Date: July 19, 1998

The Russia that emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union is an entirely new country, conducting an entirely new foreign policy. This book surveys Russia's relations with the world since 1992, and assesses the future prospect for the foreign policy of Europe's largest country.

Leon Aron examine the changing domestic basis of Russian policy toward other countries. Sherman Garnett traces Russian relations with the former Soviet republics that are now independent states to Russia's west, in particular Ukraine and the three Baltic countries. Rajan Menon analyzes the rather different set of policies the new Russia has pursued toward its neighbors to the south, in the Caucasus, and in Central Asia. Finally, Coit Blacker discusses the evolving Russian approach to the West.

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Michael Mandelbaum is director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations and Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Sustaining the Transition: The Social Safety Net in Postcommunist Europe (CFR, 1997) and The Dawn of Peace in Europe (Twentieth Century Fund, 1996).

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press (July 19, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087609213X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876092132
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,889,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and is the director of the American Foreign Policy Program there. He has also held teaching posts at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and at the United States Naval Academy.

His most recent book, written with co-author Thomas L. Friedman, is THAT USED TO BE US: HOW AMERICA FELL BEHIND IN THE WORLD IT INVENTED AND HOW WE CAN COME BACK. Its publication date is September 5, 2011.

He serves on the board of advisors of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington-based organization sponsoring research and public discussion on American policy toward the Middle East.

A graduate of Yale College, Professor Mandelbaum earned his Master's degree at King's College, Cambridge University and his doctorate at Harvard University.

Professor Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of numerous articles and of 13 books: That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (2011) with co-author Thomas L. Friedman; The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era (2010); Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government (2007); The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2006); The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football and Basketball and What They See When They Do (2004); The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century (2002); The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996); The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1988); The Global Rivals, (co-author, 1988); Reagan and Gorbachev (co-author, 1987); The Nuclear Future (1983); The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima (1981); and The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1976 (1979). He is also the editor of twelve books.