Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Of gates and keepers in the international system
- Part II An imperial message
- 3 “The barbarians”: Turkey (1918–1938)
- 4 “The children”: Japan (1945–1974)
- 5 The “enigmatic” enemy: Russia (1990–2007)
- 6 Conclusion: Zealots or Herodians?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
5 - The “enigmatic” enemy: Russia (1990–2007)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Of gates and keepers in the international system
- Part II An imperial message
- 3 “The barbarians”: Turkey (1918–1938)
- 4 “The children”: Japan (1945–1974)
- 5 The “enigmatic” enemy: Russia (1990–2007)
- 6 Conclusion: Zealots or Herodians?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Summary
Russia's identity crisis has made it difficult to formulate and pursue a clear and consistent policy toward the outside world.
Andrei Tsygankov, “From International Institutionalism to Revolutionary Expansionism”So much of Russian thinking about foreign affairs seems to converge around the idea that there is a conspiracy to prevent Russia resuming its great power status and to halt the “natural” restoration of the Russian imperial complex in some form.
Guardian, March 22, 1997Boris N. Yeltsin, speaking on Independence Day, told Russians their country remains a great international power, one that is respected instead of feared.
News Service reports, June 13, 1997Who lost Russia … our new rival? Neither ally nor partner …
Washington Times, February 18, 1998There is enough uncertainty … about the wisdom of President Vladimir Putin's new pro-western foreign policy. Is he trying to join the west, or is he trying to use it?
Financial Times, April 15, 2002For the first time, the Russian president directly questioned the legitimacy of the approaches, principles, evaluation criteria and even the very ideology of the West in relations with the rest of the world.
BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union, December 12, 2004It's time we start thinking of Vladimir Putin's Russia as an enemy of the United States.
The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2006Introduction
Is Russia, the former Soviet Union, an ally of the United States and Europe, an enemy of the West, or neither? The jury is still out, and Russian leaders have been giving out confusing signals since the official end of the Cold War.
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- After DefeatHow the East Learned to Live with the West, pp. 201 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010