Грачев М. Н., Лебедев С. В., Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Политология. История. Международные отношения» 2025 № 6 С. 183–200
The article analyses the impact of ideology on the establishment of the foreign policy alliances. The article uses the concept of “underbalancing”, initially developed by M. Haas, and reveals the mechanisms the ruling elite of one or another state uses to identify one or another ideology as friend or foe. The new theoretical material is used ...
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Seyedi Asl S., Alamdari S. Z., Sadygzade M., RUDN Journal of World History 2025 Vol. 17 No. 4 P. 566–583
The evolving dynamics of global foreign policy have highlighted economic cooperation as a critical factor in international relations post-Cold War. China’s increasing involvement in the Middle East, particularly in the Persian Gulf, has emerged as a significant development. In fact, China’s international prominence was largely attributed to its need for petroleum imports. However, as the ...
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Bordachev T., Тебин П. Ю., Россия в глобальной политике 2025 Т. 23 № 3 С. 164–180
Период совместного развития России и народов Центральной Азии сначала в составе Российской империи, а затем СССР уходит всё дальше в историю. Задачей российской политики в регионе становится выстраивание полноценных межгосударственных отношений. Вопрос не в формальном взаимном признании независимости и уважении национальных интересов, а в осознании друг друга самостоятельными участниками международной политики, что накладывает на обе ...
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IGI Global, 2025.
The study of international relations aims to provide insight into power dynamics, competition, and establishing peace and partnerships in the global system following the First World War. The international system is influenced by its various actors' behavior, which constantly evolves due to structural shifts. Although the bipolar hegemonic system of the Cold War ended in ...
Added: April 3, 2025
Fomichev F., Russia in Global Affairs 2025 Vol. 23 No. 2 P. 88–107
This article examines the history of modern Germany’s right-wing opposition as represented by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Tracing its ideological and organizational evolution, the author identifies three factions (liberal-conservative, moderate-conservative and national-conservative) and two strategic approaches they battle over. While one approach seeks entrance into the political establishment as a conservative alternative, the ...
Added: April 1, 2025
Kanaev E., В кн.: Российское цивилизационное наследие: русские топонимы в южной части Тихого океана.: М.: ИВ РАН, 2021. С. 15–34.
The chapter assesses the role of the South Pacific Region in the contemporary world and its place in Russia's policy. ...
Added: July 28, 2024
Trenin D., Russia Today 2023
President Vladimir Putin was asked again last Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum about Russia’s nuclear strategy. Recently, Moscow began to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. Meanwhile, domestically, a public debate has started over the possibility of a first use of nuclear weapons against NATO in the context of the ongoing proxy war in ...
Added: November 16, 2023
Timofei V. Bordachev, Россия в глобальной политике 2023 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 76–104
This article scrutinizes the historical impact of the Mongolian Horde on Russia’s foreign policy behavior. The author comes up with a hypothesis that relations with the Horde were not only important for Russia during the critical historical period of its formation, but also largely determined its unique foreign-policy culture and practical implementation of Russian foreign ...
Added: October 6, 2023
Bordachev T., Военная мысль 2022 Т. 31 № 3 С. 21–34
В данной статье рассматриваются природа и ключевые особенности союзнических отношений между великими ядерными державами и другими членами международного сообщества. Автор анализирует специфику и проблемы взаимодействия России со своими союзниками на постсоветском пространстве и обосновывает важность и срочность содействия укреплению их суверенитета и внешнеполитической независимости. ...
Added: October 6, 2023
Fedorov N., Сравнительная политика 2018 Т. 9 № 1 С. 74–90
The article examines the influence of the free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and Vietnam on Russian-Vietnamese relations. The author considers preconditions for expansion of the EAEU, main steps of negotiations, special features of the agreement, and results, achieved by present time. The author pays special attention to evolution of Russian-Vietnamese relations and ...
Added: September 26, 2022
Issaev L., , in: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East. New Trends, Old Traditions.: L.: C. Hurst & Co., 2022. Ch. 3 P. 61–81.
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L.: C. Hurst & Co., 2022.
This book sheds light on Russia’s motives in the Middle East, examining its growing role in the region and its efforts to defend its national interests. As one of the first volumes to address both domestic and external drivers, it provides a valuable multi-dimensional account of Moscow’s foreign policy. Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Middle ...
Added: July 1, 2022
Shcherbakov R., , in: Франция и франкофония сегодня. Материалы XIV Международной научной конференции студентов и аспирантов.: M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2020. P. 169–172.
Cultural diplomacy as the concept of soft power is frequently used by the French Republic to maintain and increase its influence on the world stage. Considering the very strong historical, economic, political and linguistic links between France and its former colonies in Africa, these strategies occupy a fairly important place in France's foreign policy. In ...
Added: September 29, 2021
Kazantsev A., Rutland P., Medvedeva S. et al., Caucasus Survey 2020 Vol. 8 No. 2 P. 142–162
The article analyzes the evolution of Russia’s policy in secessionist conflicts in the post-Soviet space in 1991–2018. The authors differentiate the patterns of Russian policy between the “first” and “second” generation of frozen conflicts. The “first generation” includes four conflicts of an ethno-linguistic nature that arose out of the collapse of the USSR in the ...
Added: August 6, 2021
Krasnyak O., Diplomatica 2020 Vol. 2 No. 1 P. 118–134
The mode, general understanding, and practices of science diplomacy revolve around a country’s history, the formation of its scientific institutions, the specifics of its foreign policy approaches, and its diplomatic practices. The nexus between science and diplomacy gives various results but ultimately are predetermined by individual creativity, community values, and state interests and support. The ...
Added: June 3, 2020
Kamenskii A. B., LIT Verlag, 2019.
The book is the collection of articles on the crisis in Russo-Austrian relations in early 18th century due to the case of tzarevich Alexis Petrovich. New archival materials as well as new interpretations of the corresponding events are presented. ...
Added: February 8, 2020
Gamidov S., Каспийский регион: политика, экономика, культура 2014 № 4 С. 274–280
History of creation of oil policy of Azerbaijan, power policy of Azerbaijan after disintegration of the Soviet Union, the conclusion " contract of the Century", its influence on economy and foreign policy of the country, scales of realization and an advance problem of "Oil strategy", a role of exhibition conference of "Hazarneftgaz" in advance of ...
Added: December 13, 2019
Kazantsev A., Sakwa R., Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2012 Vol. 45 No. 3-4 P. 289–293
The paper presents the materials of the special issue “Institutions, Networks and Trust in European–Russian relations” offering various interdisciplinary perspectives on EU–Russia relations. The positions of the authors of the special edition are analysed in the context of both Western and Russian literature on EU–Russia relations. This analysis is conducted within the framework of close ...
Added: December 4, 2019
Kazantsev A., Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2012 Vol. 45 No. 3-4 P. 305–313
This paper analyzes why formation of policy networks, which is an effective tool of European policy in different spheres, have lost significant part of its positive functions from the point of view of guaranteeing European energy security in case of European–Russian gas policy networks. This can be explained by the absence of effective international regime ...
Added: December 4, 2019
Kazantsev A., Europe-Asia Studies 2008 Vol. 60 No. 6 P. 1073–1088
The tasks that Russian policy tried to solve in Central Asia during Vladimir Putin’s presidency (2000–2008) were formulated by Russian political and expert elite circles in the mid-1990s. Boris Yeltsin’s presidential decree of 14 September 1995 proclaimed the reintegration of post-Soviet space around Russia as the major foreign policy priority.1 As a whole, the Russian ...
Added: December 4, 2019