Abstract
The author, Bobo Lo, an Australian scholar, is an Associate Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (UK), and an Associate Research Fellow with the Russia and New Independent States Center at the French Institute of International Relations. This is his fourth book since 2008. It is comprised of three parts, with the first part discussing the context of Russia‟s foreign policy in terms of the interplay between domestic factors influencing its foreign relations; while the second part focuses on Russia‟s foreign policy in relation to the evolving world disorder; and the third part explores the proposed recommendations for Russia regarding the sort of domestic and foreign policies it should pursue to achieve world prominence (p. xviii-xxi).