John Berryman teaches international relations in the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London and is an Associate Professor in International Studies at Ithaca College, New York (London Division). His recent publications include: ‘”Fear and Loathing in the Kremlin: Russia and the Challenge of Intervention’, in Roger E. Kanet and Remi Piet, eds., Shifting Priorities in Russian Foreign and Security Policy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014; ‘Geopolitics and Russian foreign policy’, International Politics, 49 (4) June-July 2012, pp. 530-44; ‘Russia, NATO Enlargement, and “Regions of Privileged Interests”’, in Roger E. Kanet, ed., Russian Foreign Policy in the 21^st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.