Includes bibliographical references and index.

Power, polarity, and personality -- The tsarist roots of Russia's foreign policy -- Soviet foreign policy : from revolution to Cold War -- Soviet foreign policy : the Cold War -- Domestic factors in the making of Russia's foreign policy -- Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union -- Yelstin faces West : aspirations and obstacles -- Russia, China and India : a strategic triangle -- Russia and the "non-West" -- Putin's quest for greater power restoration -- Russia and the United States : a new Cold War? -- Russia openly confronts the "collective West".

"This text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from a historical perspective. Now fully updated, the seventh edition incorporates new coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, with an emphasis on tensions with the U.S. and engagement with Ukraine, Crimea, and Syria. International security issues including arms control, sanctions, and intervention continue to grow in importance. Domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism, and terrorism also persist. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russia's behavior in the world since tsarist times as well as the major sources of change and variability over the revolutionary period, wartime alliances and Cold War, détente, the Soviet collapse, and the first post-communist decades. The basic framework used in the book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and it identifies several factors (both internal and external) that condition Russian policy. The interpretations are original and based on a mix of primary and secondary sources"--