THE CHANGING PATTERN OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NEW RUSSIA SINCE 1991

Aboyade, Sunday Ariyo (2018) THE CHANGING PATTERN OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NEW RUSSIA SINCE 1991. Historia Actual Online, 45 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1696-2060

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Abstract

Assessing the changing pattern in the foreign policy of the New Russia that emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union in 1991 is a complex but interesting study which highlights how the New Russian state has operated within the Western-led international system, as well as the dynamics of interstate relations that char-acterised the international order that emerged after the Cold War era. Tracing the trend and observable pattern in the foreign policy thrust of the New Russia, the paper identified liberal-ism and nationalism as the dual underpinning features of the foreign policy of the New Russia. While at some point it was largely pro-West, at another it assumed an anti-West dimension and, yet at another level, it blended both pos-tures in its thrust to establishing the Russian Federation as a major power centre in world affairs. The paper concludes that the changing pattern observable in the foreign policy of the New Russia was largely shaped by national in-terest and the quest to establishing Russia as a world superpower.

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