Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Russian Foreign Policy Themes in Official Documents and Speeches: Tracing Continuity and Change....Pages 13-29
Russian Foreign Policy as Exercise in Nation Building....Pages 30-41
How Vladimir Putin’s World View Shapes Russian Foreign Policy....Pages 42-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Dualism at Home and Abroad: Russian Foreign Policy Neo-revisionism and Bicontinentalism....Pages 65-79
The Rising Cost of Russia’s Authoritarian Foreign Policy....Pages 80-96
Russia’s Foreign Policy and Soft Power....Pages 97-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Mismatched Partners: US-Russia Relations after the Cold War....Pages 117-137
Refracting Europe: Biopolitical Conservatism and Art Protest in Putin’s Russia....Pages 138-155
Policies towards the Post-Soviet Space: The Eurasian Economic Union as an Attempt to Develop Russia’s Structural Power?....Pages 156-174
Russia and Asia-Pacific: Diversification or Sinocentrism?....Pages 175-188
Russia in International Organizations: The Shift from Defence to Offence....Pages 189-203
Conclusion: Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means....Pages 204-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-245