The new Russia and the new world order / L.N. Klepatskii -- The securitization of Russian foreign policy under Putin / Bobo Lo -- The transformation of Russia's military doctrine in the aftermath of Kosovo and Chechnya / Alexei Arbatov -- After the empire: Russia's emerging international identity / Dmitri Trenin -- Putin's foreign policy after 11 September: radical or revolutionary? / Alex Pravda -- Russia and the dual expansion of Europe / Margot Light, John Löwenhardt, and Stephen White -- Russia's place in European defence / Alyson J.K. Bailes -- Russian strategic uncertainty in an era of US tactical intrusiveness / Alvin Z. Rubinstein -- Opportunities and challenges for Russia in the Nordic-Baltic region / Pavel K. Baev -- Northern Europe: a new web of relations / Ingmar Oldberg -- Russian policy in the CIS under Putin / S. Neil MacFarlane -- The security dimension of Russia's policy in South central Asia / Lena Jonson -- The role of Islam in Russia's relations with central Asia / Yaacov Ro'i -- Russia in the middle East: the Yeltsin era and beyond / Oded Eran -- Russia between Europe and Asia: some aspects of Russia's Asian policy / Mikhail G. Nosov -- Putin's foreign policy: transforming 'the East' / Richard Sakwa.