The Uses of Sovereignty in Twenty First Century Russian Foreign Policy

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Uses of Sovereignty in Twenty First Century Russian Foreign Policy

AU - Deyermond, Ruth Margaret

PY - 2016/8/1

Y1 - 2016/8/1

N2 - Contemporary Russian foreign policy demonstrates a dual approach to state sovereignty, using a Westphalian model of sovereignty outside the former Soviet region and a post-Soviet model inside it. This approach performs three functions in contemporary Russian foreign policy: securing Russian national interests at domestic, regional, and international levels; balancing against the United States; and acting as a marker of ‘non-Western’ power identity in an emergent multipolar order. The conflict between these two models increasingly appears to threaten the last of these objectives, however, and as a means of advancing foreign policy objectives the approach thus appears caught in a self-defeating logic.

AB - Contemporary Russian foreign policy demonstrates a dual approach to state sovereignty, using a Westphalian model of sovereignty outside the former Soviet region and a post-Soviet model inside it. This approach performs three functions in contemporary Russian foreign policy: securing Russian national interests at domestic, regional, and international levels; balancing against the United States; and acting as a marker of ‘non-Western’ power identity in an emergent multipolar order. The conflict between these two models increasingly appears to threaten the last of these objectives, however, and as a means of advancing foreign policy objectives the approach thus appears caught in a self-defeating logic.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84980027999

U2 - 10.1080/09668136.2016.1204985

DO - 10.1080/09668136.2016.1204985

M3 - Article

SN - 0966-8136

VL - 68

SP - 957

EP - 984

JO - EUROPE ASIA STUDIES

JF - EUROPE ASIA STUDIES

IS - 6

ER -