Russian foreign policy in the twenty first century and the shadow of the past book description because the turbulent trajectory of russias foreign policy since the collapse of the soviet union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation history offers a special vantage point from which to judge the current course of events. Russian foreign policy in the twenty first century and the shadow of the past studies of the harriman institute columbia university english edition ebook legvold robert amazonde kindle shop. Contributors focus on the underlying patterns that have marked russian foreign policy and that persist today these patterns are driven by the countrys political makeup geographical circumstances economic strivings unsettled position in the larger international setting and above all its tortured effort to resolve issues of national identity the argument here is not that the russia of . Because the turbulent trajectory of russias foreign policy since the collapse of the soviet union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation history offers a special vantage point from which to judge the current course of events br brin this book a mix of leading historians and political scientists examines the foreign policy of contemporary russia over four . Russian foreign policy in the twenty first century and the shadow of the past russian foreign policy in the twenty first century and the shadow of the past edited by robert legvold columbia university press 2007 496 pp 4500 analysts who generalized about russias foreign policy from the peculiar circumstances of the 1990s now look silly