RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE POST-SOVIET DIRECTION: RESPONSES TO THE EASTERN POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2023-3-1330
Abstract
Aim. To analyze Russian Foreign Policy Concepts of 1993, 2000, 2008, 2013, 2016, and 2023 and to find out what changes were made to the chapters dealing with Russia’s foreign policy towards the post-Soviet states after the EU had started its active policy in the region.
Methodology. The study relies on the source analysis, historical-chronological and comparative analysis. Comparison was made of Russia’s Foreign Policy Concepts from different years in terms of their formulations regarding the development of the EU’s Eastern policy; the study of EU documents was carried out.
Results. The adjustment of the Russian foreign policy tasks towards the post-Soviet states was caused by the EU's Eastern policy. But, despite the obvious increase in tension between the key participants in international relations, in Russian Foreign Policy Concepts of 2008, 2013 and 2016 proposed to generally consider the Euro-Atlantic space as a zone of cooperation with the West. Only in 2023 the policy of the West was defined as unfriendly in Russian strategic documents.
Research implications. The results of the study can be used in the analysis of international relations among the post-Soviet states and in Europe in general.
About the Author
Olga V. Shishkina
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Political Sciences), Assoc. Prof., Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia
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