Donaldson Robert H. - The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, 2014

First published 2014 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Donaldson, Robert H., author.

The foreign policy of Russia : changing systems, enduring interests / by Robert H. Donaldson, Joseph L. Nogee, Vidya Nadkarni.Fifth edition.

pages : maps ; cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7656-4200-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)ISBN 978-0-7656-4201-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Soviet UnionForeign relations. 2. Russia (FederationForeign relations. I. Nogee, Joseph L., author. II. Nadkarni, Vidya, author. III. Title.

ISBN 13: 9780765642011 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 9780765642004 (hbk)

We thank Daniel S. Papp, who read our original manuscript and made helpful suggestions. We alone are responsible for errors of fact or interpretation. We are grateful to Jonathan L. Leitch and Andrew Brooks for helpful research assistance.

We also thank our respective institutions, the University of Tulsa, the University of Houston, and the University of San Diego, for their support of our work.

Finally, we are grateful to our families for their encouragement and support, and for their tolerance of the many distractions from family life that writing a book entails.