Russia’s Role in World Politics

Elias Götz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Uppsala Univresity, Sweden. Neil MacFarlane is Lester B Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK.

• 1. ​Russia’s role in world politics: power, ideas, and domestic influences - Elias Götz and Neil MacFarlane .- 2. Understanding Russia’s return to the Middle East - Roland Dannreuther .- 3. Reckless ambition: Moscow’s policy toward the United States, 2016/17 - Kimberly Marten .- 4. Explaining Russian foreign policy towards the EU through contrasts - Tuomas Forsberg .- 5. Russia’s relationship with China: the role of domestic and ideational factors - Jeanne L. Wilson .- 6. The quest for status: how the interplay of power, ideas, and regime security shapes Russia’s policy in the post-Soviet space - Maria Raquel Freire .- 7. Strategic imperatives, status aspirations, or domestic interests? Explaining Russia’s nuclear weapons policy - Elias Götz.