Russia’s Foreign Policy

Rajan Kumar

International Studies, 2016, vol. 53, issue 3-4, 210-226

Abstract: This article provides a broad overview of Russian foreign policy in the last three decades. It has divided this period into three broad categories—neoliberalism and the West-centric policy (1991–1995); Eurasianism and the search for multipolarity (1996–2006); and crossing the Rubicon (2007–2015)—marked by external interventions. Taking domestic factors into account, it analyses how Russian foreign policy took a radical turn from being a West-centric to a complete break with the West. Russian interventions in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria have revived the spectre of the beginning of a new Cold War. Towards the end, it discusses how Russia has developed a close economic and strategic partnership with China, especially after the sanctions from the West.

Keywords: Foreign policy; Russia; Yeltsin; Putin; Kozyrev; neoliberalism; eurasianism; crossing the Rubicon; NATO; BRICS; Crimea; Syria; EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0020881717745961

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