TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Political Competition and Bargaining in Russian Foreign Policy
T2 - The Case of Russian Policy Toward Moldova
AU - Litvak, Kate
PY - 1996/6
Y1 - 1996/6
N2 - Recent discussions about Russian foreign policy have generally concentrated on its shift to the right. Along with numerous Western observers, who interpret Russian international behavior as a single-player activity, the Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev has himself attempted to portray his policy in terms of realist theory. Answering numerous accusations on "embracing some policies that [he] once spoke out against" (Rafael et al., 1994), Kozyrev paints an explicit picture of a strategic response by his ministry to objective world conditions. However, analysis shows that world conditions played a very small role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Elsevier Science Ltd.
AB - Recent discussions about Russian foreign policy have generally concentrated on its shift to the right. Along with numerous Western observers, who interpret Russian international behavior as a single-player activity, the Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev has himself attempted to portray his policy in terms of realist theory. Answering numerous accusations on "embracing some policies that [he] once spoke out against" (Rafael et al., 1994), Kozyrev paints an explicit picture of a strategic response by his ministry to objective world conditions. However, analysis shows that world conditions played a very small role in shaping Russian foreign policy. Elsevier Science Ltd.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030458084
SN - 0967-067X
VL - 29
SP - 213
EP - 229
JO - Communist and Post-Communist Studies
JF - Communist and Post-Communist Studies
IS - 2
ER -