Chapter 1 Introduction: The Consolidation of Russia’s Role in World Affairs

Chapter 2 Russia’s Great Power Ambitions and Policy Under Putin

Chapter 3 Forming a New Security Identity Under Vladimir Putin

Chapter 4 Choices for Russia: Preserving Inherited Geopolitics Through Emergent Global and European Realities

Chapter 5 Russia’s Transdniestria Policy: Means, Ends and Great Power Trajectories

Chapter 6 Putin’s Attempts to Subjugate Georgia: From Sabre-Rattling to the Power of the Purse

Chapter 7 Governance and Diplomacy as Attributes of a Great Power: Russia and the Three Enclaves — Kaliningrad, Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan

Chapter 8 Russia and China in the New Central Asia: The Security Agenda

Chapter 9 The US Challenge to Russian Influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Chapter 10 Russia, Iran and the Nuclear Question: The Putin Record