DOV LYNCH is a lecturer at St Antony's College, Oxford. He received his BA from Yale University in 1992 and a doctorate in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1997. Dr Lynch was a Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, working on a Ford Foundation project entitles 'Keeping the Peace in the CIS' under the Russian and Eurasia Programme. He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading, and a lecturer in the Graduate School of European and International Studies. He has published on Russian military developments in The World Today. He is presently working on Russian policy towards the OSCE and on Russian civil-military relations.

• Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: 'PEACEKEEPING' IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY Peacekeeping and Coercive Diplomacy: Russian Suasion The Evolution of Foreign Policy Towards the 'Near Abroad' Russian Military Approaches to the 'Near Abroad' Consensus and Differences on 'Peacekeeping' PART II: THE CASE OF MOLDOVA, GEORGIA AND TAJIKISTAN Russian Strategy Towards Moldova Russian Strategy Towards to Abkhaz Conflict Russian Strategy Towards Tajikistan Conclusions Notes and References Select Bibliography Index

'...a well-documented analysis of Russia's peacekeeping operations in post-Soviet space, providing basic elements for a better understanding of a policy that has too often been reduced to easy cliches about 'imperial behaviour' or the 'post-colonial syndrome'.' - Nina Bachkatov, International Affairs