Robert Legvold is Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Political Science at Columbia University where he specializes in the study of the foreign policies of Russia and the other post-Soviet states. He is particularly interested in the interaction between these states and Asia, Europe, and the United States.

[A] great, thumping, satisfying book about the mainsprings of Russian foreign policy. -- Sir Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-92 RUSI Journal A major work that needs to be read by those interested in where Russia might be headed over the coming decades. -- Peter C. Pozefsky Slavic Review

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Living in the Hood: Russia, Empire, and Old and New Neighbors, by Ronald Grigor Suny 2. Russian Foreign Policy During Periods of Great State Transformation, by Robert Legvold 3. Domestic Conjunctures, the Russian State, and the World Outside, 1700-2006, by David McDonald 4. How Persistent Are Persistent Factors?, by Alfred J. Rieber 5. Russian Concepts of National Security, by Lawrence T. Caldwell 6. Russia in Northeast Asia: In Search of a Strategy, by Gilbert Rozman 7. Reluctant Europeans: Three Centuries of Russian Ambivalence Toward the West, by Angela Stent 8. Global Challenges and Russian Foreign Policy, by Celeste A. Wallander Contributors Index

Robert Legvold is Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Political Science at Columbia University where he specializes in the study of the foreign policies of Russia and the other post-Soviet states. He is particularly interested in the interaction between these states and Asia, Europe, and the United States.

[A] great, thumping, satisfying book about the mainsprings of Russian foreign policy. -- Sir Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-92 RUSI Journal A major work that needs to be read by those interested in where Russia might be headed over the coming decades. -- Peter C. Pozefsky Slavic Review

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Living in the Hood: Russia, Empire, and Old and New Neighbors, by Ronald Grigor Suny 2. Russian Foreign Policy During Periods of Great State Transformation, by Robert Legvold 3. Domestic Conjunctures, the Russian State, and the World Outside, 1700-2006, by David McDonald 4. How Persistent Are Persistent Factors?, by Alfred J. Rieber 5. Russian Concepts of National Security, by Lawrence T. Caldwell 6. Russia in Northeast Asia: In Search of a Strategy, by Gilbert Rozman 7. Reluctant Europeans: Three Centuries of Russian Ambivalence Toward the West, by Angela Stent 8. Global Challenges and Russian Foreign Policy, by Celeste A. Wallander Contributors Index

Robert Legvold is Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Political Science at Columbia University where he specializes in the study of the foreign policies of Russia and the other post-Soviet states. He is particularly interested in the interaction between these states and Asia, Europe, and the United States.

[A] great, thumping, satisfying book about the mainsprings of Russian foreign policy. -- Sir Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-92 RUSI Journal A major work that needs to be read by those interested in where Russia might be headed over the coming decades. -- Peter C. Pozefsky Slavic Review

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Living in the Hood: Russia, Empire, and Old and New Neighbors, by Ronald Grigor Suny 2. Russian Foreign Policy During Periods of Great State Transformation, by Robert Legvold 3. Domestic Conjunctures, the Russian State, and the World Outside, 1700-2006, by David McDonald 4. How Persistent Are Persistent Factors?, by Alfred J. Rieber 5. Russian Concepts of National Security, by Lawrence T. Caldwell 6. Russia in Northeast Asia: In Search of a Strategy, by Gilbert Rozman 7. Reluctant Europeans: Three Centuries of Russian Ambivalence Toward the West, by Angela Stent 8. Global Challenges and Russian Foreign Policy, by Celeste A. Wallander Contributors Index