Lieutenant-Colonel (Royal Netherlands Army, ret.) Dr Marcel de Haas (1961) is a Senior Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague, and a Senior Researcher at the Russian Studies Centre of the University of Groningen. His fields of expertise are defence and security policy of the Netherlands, Russia and the CIS.

• Introduction 1. Structure of Putin’s Foreign Security Policy (2000-2008) 2. Implementation of Putin’s Foreign Security Policy 3. Structure of Medvedev’s Foreign Security Policy (2008-2009) 4. Implementation of Medvedev’s Foreign Security Policy 5. The Russian-Georgian Armed Conflict of August 2008 6. Assessment of Russia’s Foreign Security Policy (2000-2009) and Outlook beyond Medvedev. Bibliography

'As always, De Haas’s work is well structured, and based on an intimate and detailed knowledge of key events, people and decision-making mechanisms as well as on the author’s own experience in writing about the country.' - The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (Pipss.org), Issue 11, 2010