This study, drawing primarily on Russian sources, analyses Russian foreign policy in the context of an on-going national identity crisis. The work examines Russia's foreign policy in terms of two salient factors: (1) political and economic reform, given that foreign policy has been strongly influenced by reactions - positive and negative - to Yeltsin's reform agenda; and (2) Russia's geopolitical predicament between Europe and Asia, between East and West, which requires it to reconcile various strategic imperatives with regard to NATO, China, and the Islamic world. Buszynski's study reveals current foreign policy as a process of interaction between these two factors, the result being considerable vacillation between support for the West and opposition to it. This is an analysis that could be of interest to foreign policy and international relations experts in academia and government.