1. Mark Webber and Michael Smith, (eds),Foreign Policy in a Transformed World, (Essex: Prentice Hall, 2002), p. 39.
2. William Zimmerman, The Russian People and Foreign Policy (Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 21.
3. The Council’s formal role is to be a consultative body that would make recommendations and proposals to the president on security matters and serves as the president’s principal private council where major foreign policy issues are discussed and decided upon. However, the influence and exact function of the Council ebbed and flowed depending on who was the secretary and how were his relations with the president. When Putin’s close friend, Sergei Ivanov, was Secretary (1999–2001), the SB was a major participant in security-related foreign policy issues. Once Ivanov became defence minister, the SB’s role as a major foreign policy player diminished under Vladimir Rushailo and Igor Ivanov. Leszek Buszynski, Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War (Westport: Praeger, 1996), pp. 18–21;
4. Bobo Lo, Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, RIIA, 2003), p. 36;
5. Neil Malcolm, ‘Foreign Policy Making’ in Malcolm, et al., Internal Factors in Russian Foreign Policy (Oxford: OUP, 1996), pp. 110–17;