Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunnin…
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it?0 Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunni…
Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunnin…
Russia is not unknowable--and its past might offer hints into its future and place in the world, one that reaches beyond crisis and confrontation.
The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz
The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz
"Since Russia has re-emerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia's international relations are determined. He argues that R…
Introduction: The Kazakh khanates' place within the central Eurasian world -- Part 1. The "Kazakh khanates" and the history of the international relations in Central Asia -- Reexamining the Kazakh khanates' "foreign relations in the East"--The impact of Russian advances into Cen…
Kalinovsky reconstructs the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the Red Army, and top Politburo figures. The book challenges many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership.
