Mankoff, Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics, 2nd edition. Rowman & Littlefield 2011, 352pp. (2 ECTS)
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Sakwa, The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2011, 418pp. (2 ECTS)
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Sutela, The Political Economy of Putin's Russia. Routledge 2012, 260pp. (1 ECTS)