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Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers ...

Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers important and sometimes disturbing insight into the thinking of citizens in America's former Cold War adversary about such matters as NATO expansion. Drawing on nearly a decade of unprecedented surveys he conducted with a wide spectrum of the Russian public, he gauges the impact of Russia's opening on its foreign policy and how liberal democrats orient themselves to foreign policy. He also shows that insights from the study of American foreign policy are often "portable" to the study of Russian foreign policy attitudes.As Zimmerman shows, the general public, which had a modest but real role in foreign policy decision making, tended much more toward isolationism than did the predominant elites who steered Russia's foreign policy in the 1990s. Interspersing smooth prose with a wide array of richly informative tables, the book represents an invaluable opportunity to discern probable shifts in Russian foreign policy that domestic political changes would bring. And it powerfully suggests that the West, by forging its own policies toward Russia with more prudence, can have a say in the outcome of the great choice facing Russia--whether to forge ahead with democracy or slip back into authoritarianism.

Nogee and Donaldson's new text on contemporary Russian foreign policy is a valuable resource for specialists and the book of choice for college and university courses. The authors identify continuities in Russia's international behavior, despite regime changes, and the basic factors structuring ...

Nogee and Donaldson's new text on contemporary Russian foreign policy is a valuable resource for specialists and the book of choice for college and university courses. The authors identify continuities in Russia's international behavior, despite regime changes, and the basic factors structuring these long-established patterns. They also analyze some of the external and internal forces that influence changes of policy direction, not all of which are predictable. The result is a perceptive, balanced treatment that provides readers with the context and the analytical tools needed to understand Russia's role in the world past, present, and future.

This volume focuses on how Russian policy toward Europe has developed since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It argues that important aspects of cooperation have endured in the relationship despite all the vicissitudes of Russian domestic politics and at a time of ...

This volume focuses on how Russian policy toward Europe has developed since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It argues that important aspects of cooperation have endured in the relationship despite all the vicissitudes of Russian domestic politics and at a time of flux in the international relations of the European continent. This cooperation has, at times, been fragile and has not prevented some obvious and deep-seated disagreements. It has, however, survived. Russia and Europe have increasingly "routinized" their relationship in a range of formal multilateral institutions.