Middle East: October 2003

Losing Balance: Russian Foreign Policy toward Iraq and Iran

By: Mark N. Katz

Description: "Moscow's balancing act between Washington and Baghdad [has] failed, and its balancing act between Washington and Tehran is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. . . . [A] reluctance to establish clear priorities among competing interests threatens to undermine both its relations with the United States and its influence in a region of continuing strategic importance to Russia."

Online Subscribers View Article as PDF Requires login.