Book Review: Gabriel-Gorodetsky (ed.), Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991: A Retrospectine (Ilford: Frank Cass, 1994, 227 pp., £32.00 hbk., £16.00 pbk.). Rosemary Hollis (ed.), The Soviets, Their Successors and the Middle East: Turning Point (Basingstoke: Macmillan Publishers, 1993, 296 pp., £40.00 hbk.)

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
Ayla Gol
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy

Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark N. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Middle East Policy ◽  
Former Ussr

AbstractSince the breakup of the USSR in 1991, there has been significant change in Moscow's Middle East policy. During much of the Cold War, Moscow sought to project Soviet influence throughout even the far off Arab region of the Middle East. In the post-Cold War era, though, Russian foreign policy has focused on that part of the Middle East closest to the former USSR-the Northern Tier. This article will examine the major aspects of post-Cold War Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East in order to identify Moscow's multiple goals in the region and discuss Moscow's capacity for achieving them. First, though, a brief review of the different stages of Imperial and Soviet foreign policy toward the region is necessary in order to show the extent to which post-Cold War Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East has and has not changed.

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