 I'm Tracy German from the Department of Defence Studies and there are two key interrelated areas of my research. One is looking at Russia's foreign and security policies with particular focus on Russia's relations with its post-Soviet neighbours to south, so in the Caucasus, in the Caspian region, and related to that also looking at conflict and security in the Caucasus region. I teach and work with the military and I tend to go out and share a lot of my research with members of the military who have been tasked with engaging on the defence level with countries in the post-Soviet space, so some of the brigades, the British Army that are focused very specifically on defence engagements with countries that neighbour, border Russia, I go and brief them to give them some context and background to what it is that the countries that they are engaging with face in terms of their foreign relations, their security relationship with Moscow and with their neighbours. A key aspect of my work is really focusing on Russia's reactions to the states on its periphery developing, seeking to develop closer ties with both the EU and NATO. Obviously looking at Russia's reaction to that and how that impacts both on those institutions themselves but also on the states that are looking to develop closer ties. We've seen over the past decade or so an increasingly negative reaction from Russia towards these institutions and states on its periphery seeking to develop closer ties and questioning the institutional basis of the existing liberal world order. So really looking at the Russian view of these institutions and therefore the Russian view of the existing liberal world order.