Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction: The Guns of August 1

1 Contours of Russian Foreign Policy 11

2 Bulldogs Fighting under the Rug: The Making of Russian Foreign Policy 53

3 Partnership Imperiled: Russia and the United States 97

4 Europe: Between Integration and Confrontation 145

5 Rising China and Russia's Asian Vector 193

6 Back on the Offensive? The Former Soviet Union 241

Conclusion: Dealing with Russia's Foreign Policy Reawakening 293

Bibliography 313

Index 343

About the Author 359