Keywords

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course students are able to

• appreciate and critically analyze the historical contexts of Russian foreign policy

• identify main issues and actors in contemporary Russian foreign policy

• choose and critically apply different theoretical approaches in FPA to the study of Russian foreign policy

• present and critically evaluate competing interpretations on Russian foreign policy

• identify suitable research materials and undertake foreign policy analysis

• articulate informed judgments on Russian foreign policy and communicate them in a way relevant to public discourse

Contents

Concepts, theories and methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA); elements of continuity and change in Russian (Soviet) foreign policy; current challenges and main driving forces in Russian foreign policy; the Russian foreign policy decision-making process, including its main actors and institutional parameters.

Teaching language

Evaluation

Study materials

Study materials 

Duncan, Russian Foreign Policy: From El?tsin to Putin, Routledge 2014. 

Leichtova, Misunderstanding Russia, Ashgate 2014. 

Tsygankov, Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 

Belongs to following study modules

2015–2016

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

RES008 Foreign Policy Analysis Colloquium