Russian Business Power

The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

Author(s): Andreas Wenger, Robert Orttung, Heiko Pleines, Margarita Balmaceda, Jeronim Perovic, Carol Saivetz, Michael Bradshaw, Boris Demidov, William Tompson, Louise Shelley, Erik Scott, Svante Cornell, Josh Newell
Editor(s): Andreas Wenger, Jeronim Perovic, Robert Orttung
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Place: London, New York

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups. Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behavior. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of Russian business, legal and illegal, within the context of Russia's domestic transition, this book considers how far Russia's foreign and security policy is shaped by business. It considers a wide range of issues, including energy, the arms trade, international drug flows, and human trafficking, and examines the impact of Russian business in Russia's dealings with Western and Eastern Europe, the Caspian, the Caucasus and the Far East.

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