Det sovjetiska arvet: Ryska federationens strävan efter en bipolär världsordning
(2021) STVA22 20202Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The following comparative case study examines Russian foreign policy since the creation of the Russian Federation. The study aims to explain if and to what extent the Russian interference in armed conflicts have changed during Vladimir Putin's administration compared to Boris Yeltsin's. The study seeks systemic explanations to Russian involvement in armed conflicts by examining them from a structural realist perspective, and seeks cultural and indigenous russian explanations to russian involvement by examining them from a putinist perspective.
The result shows that the reasons for Russian interference in armed conflict have changed during Vladimir Putin’s reign, due to the fact that the Russian interference in the Syrian war marks the... (More) - The following comparative case study examines Russian foreign policy since the creation of the Russian Federation. The study aims to explain if and to what extent the Russian interference in armed conflicts have changed during Vladimir Putin's administration compared to Boris Yeltsin's. The study seeks systemic explanations to Russian involvement in armed conflicts by examining them from a structural realist perspective, and seeks cultural and indigenous russian explanations to russian involvement by examining them from a putinist perspective.
The result shows that the reasons for Russian interference in armed conflict have changed during Vladimir Putin’s reign, due to the fact that the Russian interference in the Syrian war marks the first example of Russian global revisionism since the creation of the Russian Federation. However, the result is not due to Vladimir Putin himself, but cultural and structural reasons that have affected Russian leaders for centuries. (Less)
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- author
- Ridström, Malin LU and Bris Martinsson, Nils LU
- supervisor
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- Mi Lennhag LU
- organization
- course
- STVA22 20202
- year
- 2021
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Structural realism, Putinism, Revisionism Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, Comparative case study, Russian foreign policy, Armed conflict
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9033522
- date added to LUP
- 2021-05-11 15:03:04
- date last changed
- 2021-05-11 15:03:04
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