Since the mid-1990s, China’s and Russia’s strategic outlook has gradually been converging. The two great powers have incrementally shed their mutual apprehensions and started a comprehensive multifaceted cooperation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Simultaneously, as the rift between US...
The chapters of this book analyse an increasingly important dimension of Russian politics, namely responses to globalization. How do Russia’s policy actors understand and seek to meet the political challenges of the 21st century? Emphasis is placed on understanding how Russian domestic politics shape...
Konflikten i Tsjetsjenia framstår som siste avlegger av krigen mellom internasjonale terrornettverk og den vestlige verden. Men denne konflikten har sine...