Abstract

FREIRE, Maria Raquel. Foreign policy in transition: the case of the Russian Federation. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2009, n.23, pp.75-89. ISSN 1645-9199.

This paper looks at foreign policy in transition from a Soviet communist regime towards failed attempts at democratisation, in the case of the Russian Federation. The sinuous process of transition twenty years ago, the challenges implied and the opportunities missed, are here focus of analysis. This article addresses also Russia twenty years past, highlighting the elements of continuity that persist in a changed context. An analysis based on the formulation and implementation of foreign policy, in a Soviet and post-Soviet framing, and in the way this differentiation reveals the underlining dynamics to politics of action and reaction in Russian foreign policy. In this way the paper seeks to understand the foreign policy alignments underlying Russian affirmation as a relevant actor in the international system.

Keywords : foreign policy; democratization; USSR; Rússia.

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