Bringing Geopolitics Back In: Russia's Foreign Policy and Its Relations with the Post-Soviet Space
Journal: International Studies Review
Year: 2015

Recent prominent events involving Russia, such as the Russian-Georgian war, the launch of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Ukrainian crisis, and the secession of Crimea from Ukraine, clearly illustrate that Russia is repositioning itself in the international arena by forcefully demonstrating that the post-Soviet space is and will continue to be a focus of its foreign policy. A growing number of studies have rightly registered the above trend of post-Soviet Russia's resurgence in international po