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A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY: The Effects of the Natural Resource Sector and the Military Industrial Complex on Russia?s Foreign Relations - Couverture souple

Soltanov, Elnur

 
9783639129106: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY: The Effects of the Natural Resource Sector and the Military Industrial Complex on Russia?s Foreign Relations
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ISBN 10 : 3639129105 ISBN 13 : 9783639129106
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This research aims to analyze Russian natural resource sector?s effect on the formation of Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union and until the early 2000s. The main question it tries to answer is why it has been successful in determining the main contours of a relatively peaceful foreign policy in a crises-laden Russia which have had so many reasons to switch to an aggressive behavior. In this regard, the military-industrial complex is the other crucial economic sector referred to frequently. Given the overwhelming nature of the international structure that Russia finds itself in, and given the general change in the worldview of the Russians, it becomes clear that the resource-finance sector on the one hand and the military-industrial complex on the other are much more than mere economic sectors, being material cores of alternative national and international identities. Such a holistic approach involving the international politico-economic context helps to rely on the explanatory power of the legitimacy factor and to go beyond simplistic group preferences in accounting for Russian foreign policy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This research aims to analyze Russian natural resource sector?s effect on the formation of Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union and until the early 2000s. The main question it tries to answer is why it has been successful in determining the main contours of a relatively peaceful foreign policy in a crises-laden Russia which have had so many reasons to switch to an aggressive behavior. In this regard, the military-industrial complex is the other crucial economic sector referred to frequently. Given the overwhelming nature of the international structure that Russia finds itself in, and given the general change in the worldview of the Russians, it becomes clear that the resource-finance sector on the one hand and the military-industrial complex on the other are much more than mere economic sectors, being material cores of alternative national and international identities. Such a holistic approach involving the international politico-economic context helps to rely on the explanatory power of the legitimacy factor and to go beyond simplistic group preferences in accounting for Russian foreign policy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Elnur Soltanov is professor of political science at Truman State University, Missouri. Professor Soltanov has worked as a reseracher at the Russian-Ukrainian Desk of Ankara/Turkey based think-thank, ASAM, from 2000 to 2003. He has also taught at Texas Tech University, Texas, and Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania between 2003 and 2008.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639129105
ISBN 13 
9783639129106
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
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