Russia's foreign policy: key regions and issues

• Other Authors: Orttung, Robert, Perovic, Jeronim, Pleines, Heiko, Schröder, Hans-Henning, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: DEU 2015
• Subjects: Internationale Beziehungen; International relations; International Politics; Foreign Affairs; Development Policy; Entwicklungspolitik; Russland; Außenpolitik; Region; politische Entwicklung; internationale Politik; politische Strategie; internationale Zusammenarbeit; Kooperation; Welt; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat; postsozialistisches Land; Russia; foreign policy; political development; political strategy; international cooperation; cooperation; world; USSR successor state; post-socialist country; Barents Sea; Bering Sea; Norway
• Online Access: http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/43703; http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-437037

Contents: Part I: Russia's relations with key regions of the world. Russia and the West - Andrei Zagorski: Moscow seeks to renegotiate relations with the West (7-10); Sabine Fischer: The EU and Russia: stumbling from summit to summit (15-17); Andrew Monaghan: Prospects for developing NATO - Russia relations (19-21). Russia and Central Asia - Aleksei Malashenko: Russia and Turkmenistan (25-28); Alisher Ilkhamov: Russia lures Uzbekistan as its strategic satellite in Central Asia (31-34); Martha Brill Olcott: The Kazakh-Russian relationship (37-40). Russia and Asia - Gilbert Rozman: Russia's resurgence in Northeast Asia: views from the region (45-48); Oksana Antonenko: Russia, Central Asia and the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (49-53). Nuclear proliferation - Adam N. Stulberg: Russia's nonproliferation tightrope (65-68). Maritime border conflicts - Vlad M. Kaczynski: US-Russian Bering Sea marine border dispute: conflict over strategic assets, fisheries and energy resources (75-78); Vlad M. Kaczynski: The Kuril Islands dispute between Russia and Japan: perspectives of three ocean powers (79-82); Geir Honneland: Norway and Russia in the Barents Sea - cooperation and conflict in fisheries management (82-85). Part II: pressing issues: WTO accession - Peter Rutland: Russia and the WTO: one step forward, one step back (89-91); Natalya Volchkova: Russia and the WTO: a Russian view (92-95); Documentation: World Trade Organization: principal objectives and functions, accession procedure (95); Documentation: Economic effects of Russian WTO accession (96-103).