Russia

JOHN BERRYMAN Lecturer in International Relations, Birkbeck, University of London, UK ROBERT O. FREEDMAN Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science and President Emeritus, Baltimore Hebrew University, USA GRAEME P. HERD Resident Faculty Member, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Switzerland LARISA HOMARAC Graduate Student, Department of International Studies, University of Miami, USA NIKITA A. LOMAGIN Associate Professor, School of Economics, St. Petersburg State University and the European University, St. Petersburg, Russia SUSANNE NIES Research Director, Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS), Paris, France BERTIL NYGREN Associate Professor of Political Science, Swedish National Defence College and Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden INGMAR OLDBERG Associate Director of Research, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden VLADIMIR RUKAVISHNIKOV Professor, Department of Global Politics and International Relations, State University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

The authors argue that Vladimir Putin and his advisors are committed to re-establishing Russia as a great power and that the existence of nuclear weapons and the revival of the Russian economy have provided the foundations for an expanded Russian role in global affairs.The authors argue that Vladimir Putin and his advisors are committed to re-establishing Russia as a great power and that the existence of nuclear weapons and the revival of the Russian economy have provided the foundations for an expanded Russian role in global affairs.