Andrew Monaghan

Power in Modern Russia explores the Russian leadership's strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it. Given these difficulties and the Russian leadership's concerns about an unstable and increasingly competitive world, the Russian official and expert community often use the term 'mobilisation' to describe the measures that Moscow is increasingly resorting to in order to...

This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms? Monaghan addresses core themes of Russian activity — military, energy, and economic — incorporating both regional and thematic specialist expertise to offer an...

How to handle Russia? This question has become ever more prominent as the Euro-Atlantic community’s relations with Russia languish in systemic crisis, with dialogue suspended, reciprocal sanctions in place, and proxy wars raging. The wars in Ukraine and Syria, accusations of Russian interference in domestic politics, and the attempted murder of the Skripals on UK soil have all contributed to...