The Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

221 Pages·1997·21.247 MB·English

by  Roger E. Kanet, Alexander V. Kozhemiakin (eds.)

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Also by Roger E. Kanet
ASIA IN THE SOVIET GLOBAL SlRATEGY
BACKGROUND TO CRISIS: Policy and Politics in Gierek's Poland
COPING WITH CONFLICT AFfER THE COLD WAR (editor)
ON lliE ROAD TO COMMUNISM
SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN FOREIGN RELATIONS:
A Bibliography
SOVIETECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH THE
DEVELOPING WORLD
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY AND EAST- WEST RELATIONS (editor)
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1980s
SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY IN TRANSITION (editor)
THE BEHAVIOURAL REVOLUTION AND COMMUNIST STUDIES
(editor)
lliE COLD WAR AS COOPERATION: Superpower Cooperation in
Regional Conflict Management (editor)
THE LIMITS OF SOVIET POWER IN lliE DEVELOPING WORLD:
Thermidor in the Revolutionary Struggle (editor)
lliE SOVIET UNION AND lliE DEVELOPING NATIONS (editor)
lliE SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE AND lliE lliIRD
WORLD
WESTERN EUROPE IN SOVIET GLOBAL STRATEGY
The Foreign Policy of
the Russian Federation
Edited by
Roger E. Kanet
Professor ofP olitical Science
University ofI llinois at Urbana-Champaign
and
Alexander V. Kozhemiakin
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Georgia State University
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The foreign policy of the Russian Federation / edited by Roger E.
Kanet and Alexander V. Kozhemiakin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-16557-4 (cloth)
I. Russia (Federation}-Foreign relations. I. Kanet, Roger E.,
1936- . 11. Kozhemiakin, Alexander V., 1973-
DK51O.764.F67 1997
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Contents
hif~e ~
Notes on the Contributors
Vll
IntToduction by Alexander V. Koz/lemiakin anti Roger E. Kanet x
1 Defining the National Interest: Russian Foreign Policy
and Domestic Politics
Peter Shearman
2 Russia and Its Western Neighbours in the 'Near
Abroad' 28
Alexander V. Koz/lemia/cin anti Roger E. Kanet
3 Russian Policy towards Central Europe and the Balkans 49
Aurel Braun
4 Neither Adversaries Nor Partners: Russia and the
West Search for a New Relationship 78
J.
Paul Marantz
5 Russia and Asia: Tbe Emergence of 'Normal Relations'? 102
F. Seth Singleton
6 Moscow and the Middle East since the Collapse of
the Soviet Union: A Preliminary Analysis 125
Rohm O. Freedman
7 Tbe Third World in Russian Foreign Policy 159
Roger E. Kanet, Alexander V. Koz/lemiakin, anti
Susanne M. Birgerson
8 Towards the Future: Emerging Trends in Russian
Foreign Policy 192
William E. Ferry anti Roger E. Kanet
lruUx 202
v
Preface
This book traces its origins to a roundtable panel on the emerging
new foreign policy of the Russian Federation held at the annual
meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii in November 1993. Since that time the
original authors have drafted and reworked their individual contribu
tions, in order to incorporate recent developments in this rapidly
changing area. Several other authors were commissioned to write
or expand chapters, so that the resulting study would provide a
comprehensive overview of emerging Russian foreign policy.
Dur objective is to provide a current assessment of the major
developments in Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the
Soviet Union at the end of 1991. Each chapter provides abrief
introduction to the legacy of the Soviet past in the region, a discus
sion of the foreign policy debate in Moscow and its implications for
Russian behaviour, the significance of Russian interests in the area,
and the major current and likely future lines of Russian policy.
Initially the editors were convinced that the virtual break in rela
tions between Russia and the developing world did not warrant a
full chapter. The re-emergence ofRussian relations with developing
countries since 1993, however, resulted in the decision that a full
analysis of this topic was essential.
The editors wish to express their sincere appreciation to the authors
for the timeliness of their submissions. They also wish to thank both
Larry R. Faulkner, Provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, and Peter F. Nardulli, Head of the Department of
Political Sciences, for research support. They are also indebted to
Susanne M. Birgerson who assisted in editing some of the original
papers as weIl as preparing page proofs and indexing,Ja son Sharmon
for page proofing and indexing, and toJerrie C. Merridith ofInter
national Programs and Studies at the University oflllinois who helped
make footnoting styles and wordprocessing programs compatible.
Without the assistance of all of these individuals the project would
not have come to completion.
ROGER E. KANET
Champaign, Illinois
ALEXANDER V. KOZHEMIAKIN
Atlanta, Georgia
Vl
Notes on the Contributors
SusaDlle M. BirgersoD received an MA in Political Science and
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the
University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently
engaged in research on a dissertation entitled 'The Russian Dia
spora in the "Near Abroad": Implications for Russian Security
oJ
Policy'. Her publications have appeared in Problems Post-Commun
Um, Asian Affairs, Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Strategie Studies
Journal and Osteuropa.
Aurel Braun is Professor of Political Science at the University of
Toronto. His research has emphasized the international relations of
Eastern Europe, with special attention to Romanian and Soviet
foreign policy. His many publications include Rmnanian Fareign Policy
since 1965 (1978); Small-State Securi!J in the Balkans (1985): 7he Middle
&st in GlDbal Stra~ (1987, editor); and 7he Soviet-East European
Relationship in the Corbachev Era (1 990)
WilliaDl E. Ferry eamed an MA in Slavic Studies from the Ohio
State University and is a PhD candidate in the Department of
Political Science at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He has co-authored several review essays that have appeared in
Osteuropa. He is also co-editor of and contributor to 7he Post
Communist States in the War/d Communiry (in press).
Robert O. Freec:bnau is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of
Political Science, former Dean of the Graduate School, and Interim
President of the Baltimore Hebrew University. He is the author of
many articles and books conceming Soviet policy in the Middle
East, Middle Eastern politics, and related issues, including: &onomic
Waifare in the Communist BlDe (1970); Soviet Policy toward the Middle East
since 1970 (1974, 1978, 1984); Moseow and the Middle East (1991); and
Soviet Policy toward Israel uru:ler Gorbachev (1 991 ).
Roger E. Kauet is Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, Director of International Prograrns and Studies, and Pro
fessor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign. His recent publications include Coping with Conflict qfter
Vll
Vlll Notes on the Contrihutors
the Cold War (1996, co-editor with E. A. Ko1odziej), Soviet Foreign
Policy in Transition (1992, co-editor with D. N. Miner and T. J.
Res1er), and The Cold War as Cooperation: Superpower Cooperation in
Regional Conflict MaTUJgement (1991, co-editor with E. A. Ko1odziej).
Ale~der V. KozheDÜakin is Assistant Professor of Political
Science at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He is a graduate of
the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and received
an
MA and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation was
entitled 'Expanding the "Pacmc Union"? The Impact ofthe Process
of Democratization on International Security'. His articles have
appeared in Osteuropa, Aktuelle AnalYsen (Bundesinstitut fiir ostwis
senschaftliche und internationale Studien), Problems qf Post-Commun
Um, and Review qf Intmuztional Studies. He spent 1995-96 as a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for Security Studies at
Harvard University.
Paul J. Marantz is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of British Co1umbia, Vancouver. He has published
widely on aspects of Soviet and Russian foreign policy. His publica
tions include Superpower Invo/vement in the Middle Eart: Dynamics qf
Foreign Policy (1985, co-editor with B. S. Steinberg); Frorn Lenin to
Gorbaclzev: Changing Soviet Perspectives on Ear~ West Relations (1988); and
The Decline qf the Soviet Union and the Tranifomwtion qf the Middle Eart
(1993, co-editor with D. H. Goldberg).
Peter Sheannan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political
Science at the University ofMelbourne, specializing in international
relations and Russian foreign policy. He is the author of numerous
publications, the most recent of which are The Soviet Union and Cuba
(1987); The Superpowers, CenITal America and the Middle Eart (1991, co
editor with P. Williams); Russion Foreign Policy since 1990 (editor,
1995). He is currently writing a book entitled Globalisation and
Russian National ldenti~.
F. Seth SingletoD is Professor of Political Science and former
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences ~t Pacmc University. His
academic interests have included Soviet and Russian domestic and
foreign policy. His writings on these and related topics include
'From Intervention to Consolidation: The Soviet Union and South-
Notes on the Contrihutors
IX
em Africa', in 77ze Soviet Impact on A.frica, edited by R. C. Nation and
M. V. Kauppi (1984) and 'The Soviet Union, the Horn, and
Tropical Mrica', in 77ze Limitr oJ Soviet Power in the Developing World,
edited by E. A. Kolodziej and R. E. Kanet (1989).