Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Russian Business Power as a Source of Transnational Conflict and Cooperation 2. The Role of Business in Russian Foreign and Security Relations Part 2: Russian Energy: Regional Power and Dependency 3. Russian Energy Companies and the Enlarged European Union 4. Russian Energy Companies in the New Eastern Europe: The Cases of Ukraine and Belarus 5. Russian Energy Companies in the Caspian and Central Eurasian Region: Expanding Southward 6. Russia, Iraq, and Iran: Business, Politics, or Both? 7. Russian and Transnational Energy Companies: Conflict and Cooperation in Pacific Russia Part 3: Beyond Energy: Emerging Business Networks and Human Security 8. Russian Business, the Arms Trade, and Regional Security 9. Russian Banks and Russian Diplomacy: Occasionally Rather Embarrassing 10. The Drug Trade in Russia 11. Uncharted Territory: Russian Business Activity in Abkhazia and South Ossetia 12. Timber in the Russian Far East and Potential Transborder Conflict