This anthology is the result of a conference titled "Russian National Security: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects," held at the Collins Center of the Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership from 4 through 6 December 2000. The conference complemented the Center's objective of examining the changing environment in which the United States-including its armed forces-finds itself. The conference brought together over 60 individuals from Western and Northern Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States to examine a wide range of issues related to Russian national security policy. The workshop examined that policy in terms of factors influencing Russian national security policy formulation, Russia's perceptions of the world and itself, current Russian security and foreign policies in key regions of the world, and prospects for Russian interests and actions in the world, considering especially implications for the United States.

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Part I. The Russian national security community. Introduction / Michael H. Crutcher -- Roots of Russian national security / George Kolt -- What is the Russian national security community / Andrei Kortunov -- Kremlin images of the world: old-age hang-ups and juvenile complexes / Alexander Golts -- Nationalism in post-Communist Russia: from resignation to anger / Illya Prizel ; Part II. Russia and Europe. Introduction / R. Craig Nation -- Russia and Western Europe: problems and perspectives / Tatiana G. Parkhalina -- Russian policy vis-à-vis Western and Northern Europe / Jyriki Iivonen -- Russia and the Baltic Sea region: security aspects / Dmitri Trenin -- Russia and the Balkans / R. Craig Nation -- Russia and Ukraine: a new policy? / James Sherr ; Part III. Russian policy toward the Caucasus and Central Asia. Introduction / Marybeth P. Ulrich -- Chechnya and its consequences / Stephen Blank -- Russian military policy and the South Caucasus / Ariel Cohen -- Russia and Central Asia under Putin: the Afghan factor / Lena Jonson -- Energy and Russian foreign policy: implications for global security and U.S. policy / Amy Myers Jaffee, Robert A. Manning ; Part IV. Russia and Asia. Introduction / Stephen J. Blank -- Russia in Northeast Asia: from confrontation to partnership (perceptions, views and observations) / Vladimir I. Ivanov -- Beijing warms to Moscow: a Sino-Russian entente for the 21st century / Andrew Scobell -- Has Japan's new Eurasian diplomacy been a failure? / Peggy Falkenheim Meyer -- South Asia in the Russian strategic calculus: emerging challenges and prospects / Anupam Srivastava ; Part V. Russia and the United States. Introduction / Anthony Williams -- U.S.-Russian relations: the view from Washington / John Beyrle -- From strategic partnership to a "pragmatic" relationship: domestic sources of Russia's perceptions of the United States / Mikhail Alexseev -- U.S. Russian prospects for arms control: reality versus ambitions / Igor Khripunov -- The coming Russian boom: again? / Marshall I. Goldman ; Part VI. Russia's military transformation. Introduction / James F. Holcomb -- Russian armed forces: status and prospects / Robert L. Arnett -- The great exception: Russian civil-military relations / Stephen Blank -- Russia's strategic nuclear force options and new uncertainties / Stephen J. Cimbala.