Katz, Mark N.2010-06-022010-06-022010-06-02978-2-86592-691-6https://hdl.handle.net/1920/5849Russia‘s foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East is not an aggressive, anti-Western one, but a defensive policy aimed more at protecting Russian economic interests, working with virtually any government that opposes Sunni radicalism, and preventing Moscow from becoming a target of Muslim anger as occurred during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and Chechnya (since 1994).en-USInternational affairsRussiaArticle