Jeffrey Mankoff

Snapshot
Jeffrey Mankoff

Guided by President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia appears to be slowly refashioning its foreign policy to favor better relations with the West. Moscow would like to exchange closer ties for investment and technology -- a trade that Washington would be wise to support.

Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Robert Legvold

The impulse behind the recent assertiveness of Russia's foreign policy, Mankoff argues, is nothing new -- only its expression and its context are.