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A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 136
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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