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"President Putin and the Russian leadership are engaged in a massive building project of reassembling ‘Greater Russia’. Drawing mainly on the examples of the Caucasian states, Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia relates Russia’s current efforts to establish a Moscow-centered Eurasian Union to the long history of Russian imperial domination under both the tsars and the communists. Arakelyan demonstrates most clearly how Moscow draws upon those historical linkages, in combination with current economic and security dependencies, to tie some neighboring states to a new Moscow-centered regional economic and political order, but also the factors that have enabled some states to resist Russian entreaties." - Roger E. Kanet, University of Miami "Lilia Arakelyan’s book is one of few theoretically-informed studies of Russian foreign policy in the Southern Caucasus. Following a neoclassical realist approach, she argues that Russia is motivated by considerations of regional hegemony and global status. Liberals and constructivists may disagree, but should read the book and seriously consider its arguments." - Andrei P. Tsygankov, International Relations & Political Science, San Francisco State University