Russian Business Power

Andreas Wenger is professor of international security policy and director of the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). His main research interests are in security and strategic studies and the history of international relations.Jeronim Perovic is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He works on contemporary aspects of Russian foreign and security policy, energy politics in the Caspian, regionalism in Russia, and Soviet-Yugoslav relations.Robert W. Orttung is associate research professor at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center of American University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. His interests are Russian regional politics, business-state relations, corruption, organised crime and terrorism.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Russian Business Power as a Source of Transnational Conflict and Cooperation 2. The Role of Business in Russian Foreign and Security Relations Part 2: Russian Energy: Regional Power and Dependency 3. Russian Energy Companies and the Enlarged European Union 4. Russian Energy Companies in the New Eastern Europe: The Cases of Ukraine and Belarus 5. Russian Energy Companies in the Caspian and Central Eurasian Region: Expanding Southward 6. Russia, Iraq, and Iran: Business, Politics, or Both? 7. Russian and Transnational Energy Companies: Conflict and Cooperation in Pacific Russia Part 3: Beyond Energy: Emerging Business Networks and Human Security 8. Russian Business, the Arms Trade, and Regional Security 9. Russian Banks and Russian Diplomacy: Occasionally Rather Embarrassing 10. The Drug Trade in Russia 11. Uncharted Territory: Russian Business Activity in Abkhazia and South Ossetia 12. Timber in the Russian Far East and Potential Transborder Conflict