Learning outcomes

To introduce students to the most important frameworks of analysis in the study of foreign policy, to apply the frameworks to the Russian case and, on this basis, to examine continuities and discontinuities in Soviet/Russian foreign and security policy.

Contents

1. Introduction to the key components of foreign policy as a practice and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) as an academic perspective.
2. Evolution of Russian foreign policy from the Soviet period to the present day through key events.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

1. year spring

Spring 2010

Study materials

- Tsygankov, Andrei P. (2006). Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

- Worth, Owen (2005). Hegemony International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia.

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