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This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in
Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical,
theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects. It
identifies the place and role of Russia in global IR and discusses
the factors that facilitate or impede the development of Russian IR
studies. The contributors represent diverse Russian regions and IR
schools and offer an overview of different intellectual traditions
and key IR paradigms in the post-Soviet era. Filling the vacuum in
international understanding of the Russian perspective on pivotal
international issues, they demonstrate the continuity and change in
Russia's international policy course over the past three decades
and explain how different foreign policy schools and concepts have
affected Russian foreign policy making and the decision-making
process. Providing a unique contribution to the discussion on
non-Western IR theory, this handbook will appeal to scholars and
students of international relations, Russian studies, world
politics, and international studies.
This book aims to explain the reasons behind Russia's international
conduct in the post-Soviet era, examining Russian foreign policy
discourse with a particular focus on the major foreign policy
schools of Atlanticism, Eurasianism, derzhavniki, realpolitik,
geopolitics, neo-Marxism, radical nationalism, and post-positivism.
The Russian post-Soviet threat perceptions and national security
doctrines are studied. The author critically assesses the evolution
of Russian foreign policy decision-making over the last 25 years
and analyses the roles of various governmental agencies, interest
groups and subnational actors. Concluding that a foreign policy
consensus is gradually emerging in contemporary Russia, Sergunin
argues that the Russian foreign policy discourse aims not only at
the formulation of an international strategy but also at the search
for a new national identity. Alexander Sergunin argues that
Russia's current domestic situation, defined by numerous
socio-economic, inter-ethnic, demographic, environmental, and other
problems, dictates the need to abandon superpower ambitions and to
rather set modest foreign policy goals.
In this timely book, the authors provide a detailed analysis of
Russia's national interests in the Arctic region. They assess
Russia's domestic discourse on the High North's role in the system
of national priorities as well as of Moscow's bi- and multilateral
relations with major regional players, energy, environmental,
socio-cultural, and military policies in the Arctic. In contrast to
the internationally wide-spread stereotype of Russia as a
revisionist power in the High North, this book argues that Moscow
tries to pursue a double-sided strategy in the region. On the one
hand, Russia aims at defending her legitimate economic interests in
the region. On the other hand, Moscow is open to co-operation with
foreign partners that are willing to partake in exploiting the
Arctic natural resources. The general conclusion is that in the
foreseeable future Moscow's strategy in the region will be
predictable and pragmatic rather than aggressive or spontaneous.
The authors argue that in order to consolidate the soft power
pattern of Russia's behavior a proper international environment in
the Arctic should be created by common efforts. Other regional
players should demonstrate their responsibility and willingness to
solve existing and potential problems on the basis of international
law.
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