Russian Foreign Policy Towards The Middle East

<P>Most area specialists recognize the effects of national identity on the regional politics of the Middle East. However, those same specialists have proceeded as if identity matters little for understanding how nations determine their foreign policy...

<i>A Vanishing West in the Middle East </i>covers the history of Western cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa since the end of the Cold War. Based on more than fifty interviews with diplomats and experts as well as consultations...

<P>Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia¿s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia¿s foreign policy. The chapters draw from numerous theoretical...