In Russia's Military Interventions, Elnur Ismayilov analyzes Russia's recent military interventions in Georgia and Ukraine by assessing the driving factors - the interests fueling Russian involvement and the decisions that fostered the resulting wars. Ismayilov covers the creation and transformation behind Russia's post-Soviet perspectives on Ukraine and Georgia and explores the panorama of post-Soviet Russia's foreign policy from the 1990s up to the turbulent present, in which Ukraine and Georgia's pro-Western orientations have remained a core concern of the Kremlin. Thoughtfully, Russia is fighting against being rated as a declining regional power and confronts a palpable clash of Russian nationalism and Western liberal democracy.

The purpose of this study is to present the neo-imperialist character of the Russian Foreign Policy and to identify Russia's foreign policy levers towards post-Soviet countries since the collapse of the bipolar world order. The author attempts to find the reasons of it and to explore the issues that will be central to those relations in the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The foreign policy was examined in the Kremlin's relations toward its Near Abroad in last twenty years. The work is aimed at the analysis of the following questions: How does Russia perceive the post-Soviet countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What is the place of the former Soviet republics in the Russian debate on foreign policy and what are the objectives of Russian foreign policy in relation to those countries?