This book discusses and provides examples of Russia's need to reshape its security and military policies in order to meet the global challenges of fighting terrorism and counterinsurgency. It addresses some of the problems facing Russia's national security and military power, including:

• military reform
• US-Russian relations
• the political economy of Russian security policy
• Russian policy regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
• the chances for US-Russian cooperation in ballistic missile defence.

Russia's Security and the War on Terror provides a insight into Russian military policies and its changing relationship with NATO throughout the 1990s.

This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies