Der Band enthält die Beiträge russischer, ukrainischer und weißrussischer Wissenschaftler zu einer Konferenz zum Thema "Russia's Role within a New European Security Architecture", die von der Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktanalyse an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich im Dezember 1997 in Zürich veranstaltet wurde. Aus dem Inhalt: I. The Domestic Dimension: 1. Andrey Kortunov: Russian National Interests: The State of Discussion (21-45); 2. Tatyana Parkhalina: Impacts of Domestic and Regional Factors on Russia's Foreign and Security Policy (47-57); 3. Tatyana Yevgeneva: The Myth of the "West" in Russian Political Culture and its Impact on Foreign and Security Policy (59-70). II. The CIS Dimension: 4. Dmitriy Trenin: Reluctant Adaptation: Russia's Security Policy towards New Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (89-99); 5. Leonid Bilousov: Ukrainian-Russian Relations and the Debate on NATO Enlargement (101-111); 6. Anatoliy Rozanov: Belarus, Russia, and a New European Security Architecture (113-127). III. The European and Global Dimension: 7. Aleksey Filitov: Soviet Security Concepts in Historical Retrospective (147-162); 8. Yevgeniy Bazhanov: Russian Foreign and Security Policy in its Global Dimension (163-176); 9. Sergey Rogov: Security Relations between Russia and the Western World (177-189); 10. Igor Maximychev: Russia's Concept of a New European Security Architecture (191-202); 11. Vassiliy Sokolov / Andrey Korneev: East-West Cooperation and International Ecological Security (203-215).