A nation must think before it acts.
With Russia playing an ever-larger role in global politics, understanding the drivers of Russian foreign policy is crucial. This series of papers examines the factors that shape Russian’s relations with countries in its neighborhood and further afield. What are Russia’s foreign policy goals? What tools has it used to try to achieve them? And to what extent is Russia attaining its aims? Drawing on scholars with deep regional expertise and based on fresh research, Russia Foreign Policy Papers provide new insight into understanding Russia’s international role.
Publications:
- Understanding Russia’s Cyber Strategy - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Josephine Wolff -
- Russia’s Nuclear Activity in 2020: A Show of Strength Despite COVID-19 - Reports, Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Maxim Starchak -
- Russia’s Struggle to Gain Influence in Southeast Asia - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Bennett Murray -
- The Role of the Military in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy Over the Past 20 Years - Orbis, Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Anna Borshchevskaya -
- Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Putin ‘Changes’ the Constitution - Orbis, Russia Foreign Policy Papers - William R. Spiegelberger -
- “Engaged Opportunism”: Russia’s Role in the Horn of Africa - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Samuel Ramani -
- Russia’s Defense Industry: Between Political Significance and Economic Inefficiency - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Pavel Luzin -
- Friends or Frenemies? How Russia and Iran Compete and Cooperate - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Nicole Grajewski -
- Russian Private Military Companies: Continuity and Evolution of the Model - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Anna Borshchevskaya -
- Belarus-Russia: From a Strategic Deal to an Integration Ultimatum - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Arseny Sivitsky -
- Russia’s Awkward Dance with Vietnam - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Bennett Murray -
- Russia’s Engagements in Central America - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Ivan Ulises Klyszcz -
- NATO in the Baltics: Deterring Phantom Threats? - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Robert E. Hamilton -
- Hanging by a Thread: Russia’s Strategy of Destabilization in Montenegro - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Reuf Bajrovic, Vesko Garčević, Richard Kraemer -
- Moscow on the Mediterranean: Russia and Israel’s Relationship - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Joshua Krasna -
- Outfoxed by the Bear? America’s Losing Game Against Russia in the Near East - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Michael A. Reynolds -
- Russian and American De-Confliction Efforts in Syria: What’s the Endgame in the Civil War? - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Robert E. Hamilton -
- The 2016 Coup Attempt in Montenegro: Is Russia’s Balkans Footprint Expanding? - Russia Foreign Policy Papers - Dimitar Bechev -