This course offers a comparative look at the making and implementation of Russian Foreign Policy after the end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union. Faced with the disappearance of the Soviet Union the task of understanding and explaining Russian Foreign policies, scholars can pursue one of two broad options. The first option – and focus of most discussion and publication since December 1991 is description and documentation of Russian policy. The second option is explicitly theoretical. This approach is less focused upon the policy itself and more intent on the dynamic processes of policy formation, evolution and change. This course offers a combination of these two options. To do so, we begin with investigation of the sources of the Russian conduct (theories, frameworks and approaches) and analyze the foreign policy institutions and priorities of Russia. We will examine several theoretical models that focus on the impact of different factors on Russian Foreign Policy: type of government, ideology, leadership politics, bureaucratic and interest group politics, the European security system, Russia’s historic borderlands and ‘empire’, and international economic system. The second part of the course is aimed at close examination of regional aspects of Russian Foreign Policy with particular attention to relation with the West, newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, and the Far East.
Преподаватель:Никита Ломагин, доктор исторических наук, профессор факультет политических наук
Продолжительность курса: 56 часов
Стоимость курса: 10 000 руб.
Контактное лицо:Алия Абзалитдинова
, администратор факультетаaabzalitdinova@eu.spb.ru