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THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION'S POST‐COMMUNIST FOREIGN POLICY
Author(s) -
Barylski Robert V.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1994.tb00332.x
Subject(s) - foreign policy , political science , ideology , communism , position (finance) , nationalism , political economy , foreign policy analysis , politics , foreign relations , state (computer science) , law , sociology , economics , finance , algorithm , computer science
The essay is a brief, analytical history of the critical formative years of the new Russian state's foreign policy. The author argues that changes in the Russian Federation's post‐Communist foreign policy take place within definable parameters. These are presented ar an analytical system with five major components: a)Russia's position on nationalism, b) level of world power ambition, c) sphere of influence, d) civilizational orientation, and, e) national political ideology. Each component is a set of competing ideas arranged along a policy spectrum. The Yeltsin administration is placed on each spectrum and is shown debating its foreign policy values with competing views. Yeltsin's foreign policy emerges as the product of an interaction between classical foreign policy analysis and domestic and international political competition. It is seen as progressively adjusting to Eurasian pressures but resisting efforts to abandon the general Western orientation it inherited from the Gorbachev era.