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  • 8 - The Foreign Policy of an Aspiring Great Power

  • from Part I - Political Institutions
  • Edited by Susanne A. Wengle, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Russian Politics Today
    Published online:
    28 October 2022
    Print publication:
    27 October 2022, pp 173-196

  • Summary

    Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has aspired to remain a major power in international relations. The status of “great power” has remained essential to Russia even after end of the period of Soviet grandeur and the post-Soviet transition. Until the mid-2000s, the country’s leaders sought to revive its great power status in partnership with Western nations. Since the mid-2000s, Russia has moved in the direction of challenging Western global priorities by stressing values of national sovereignty and patriotism. More recently, Russia has sought to establish areas of mutual noninterference in relations with the West. In 2022, this approach resulted in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the escalation of tensions and confrontation with the United States and NATO. Outside the West, Moscow has aspired to take advantage of global economic and geopolitical opportunities including in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The chapter reviews the main developments in Russian foreign policy since 1991, giving an overview of the country’s relations with Western and non-Western countries, while focusing on recent years. Studying Russian foreign policy in general, and historical and contemporary goals in particular, is important for both policy-relevant and theoretical reasons. This chapter addresses these goals as well as policy choices following the dissolution of the USSR and discusses both realist and liberal explanations of Russian foreign policy and its limitations. Finally, this analysis will help formulate a framework to assess Russia’s ambition to become a major power in international relations in the future.

Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin
  • Honor in International Relations
  • Andrei P. Tsygankov
  • Published online:
    05 July 2012
    Print publication:
    28 June 2012
  • Since Russia has re-emerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia's international relations are determined. He argues that Russia's interests in acquiring power, security and welfare are filtered through this cultural belief and that different conceptions of honor provide an organizing framework that produces policies of cooperation, defensiveness and assertiveness in relation to the West. Using ten case studies spanning a period from the early nineteenth century to the present day - including the Holy Alliance, the Triple Entente and the Russia-Georgia war - Tsygankov's theory suggests that when it perceives its sense of honor to be recognized, Russia cooperates with the Western nations; without such a recognition it pursues independent policies either defensively or assertively.

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