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The Foreign Policy Debate in Russia: In Search of a National Interest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Lena Jonson*
Affiliation:
Utrikespolitiska Institutet (Stockholm)

Extract

Russia is at present seeking to define its national interest. A new foreign policy is in the process of being formed; in a debate that has run wild, the points of reference used when formulating foreign policy in the days of Soviet Marxism have been abandoned and replaced by notions about “the Russian national interest” (Rahr 1992; Crow 1992).

Type
II The USSR and Beyond
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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“Jevvgenii Trubetskoi,” Novoe Vremya, No. 22, 1992.Google Scholar
Khoros, V. “Russkaya ideya na istoricheskom perekrestke,” Svobodnaja Mysl', No. 6, 1992, pp. 3647.Google Scholar
“Mozhno li vyvesti voiska iz Baltii i ostat'sya pri svoikh?” Novoe Vremya, No. 51, 1991.Google Scholar
Novikova, L. & Sizemskaya, I., “Dva lika evraziistva,” Svobodnaja Mysl', No. 7, 1992, pp. 100110.Google Scholar
Pleshakov, K. “Rossiiskaya dilemma,” Novoe Vremya, No. 2, 1992.Google Scholar
Pushkov, A. “Is Alliance w ith the West Feasible?” Moscow News, No. 42, 1991.Google Scholar
Rasputin, V. “Chto dal'she, brat'ya-slavyane?” Den', No. 15 (43), 1992, p. 5.Google Scholar
“Russia Has Quit the USSR: What Next?” Moscow News, No. 42, 1991.Google Scholar
Trubetskoi, N. “Obshzheevraziiskii natsionalizm,” Svobodnaja Mysl', No. 7, 1992, pp. 111116.Google Scholar
Tsipko, A. & Migranyan, A., “Vkakoi strane my budem zhit?” Znamya, No. 1, 1992.Google Scholar
Vasil'ev, L. “Tragediya russkikh,” Novoe Vremya, No. 10, 1992.Google Scholar
Zagorskii, Zlobin, Solodovnik & Khrustalev, “Rossiya posle raspada SSSR,” MGIMO Tsentr mezhdunarodnykh issledovanii, Moskva, 1992.Google Scholar
Aksyuchits, V. Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 13 April, 1992, p. 3.Google Scholar
“Andrei Kozyrev ne isklyuchaet vozmozhnosti peresmotra granits bnutri SNG,” Izvestiya, 9 June, 1992, p. 6.Google Scholar
“A. Rutskoi prizyvaet Rossiyu sotrudnichat s Latinskoi Amerikoi,” Izvestiya, 9 June 1992, p. 5.Google Scholar
Bogaturov, A. & Kozhukin, M.Vostochnyi vopros dlya Rossii,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 26 March, 1992, p. 4.Google Scholar
“Boris Yeltsin: Rai cherez mesyats ne obreshzhayu',” Izvestiya, 15 July, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
“Chetyre ministra vstretilis'snova,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 18 April, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
“Dlya chego perevozit’ chto-to ix Rossii v Rossii,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 7 April, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
Goncharov, S. “Osobye interesy Rossii—v chem zhe oni zaklyuchayotsya,” Izvestiya, 25 Feb, 1992, p. 6.Google Scholar
“Izvestiya/TASS/RIA,” Izvestiya, 2 Oct, 1991, p. 1.Google Scholar
Konstantinov, I. V., Shipovalova, L. S. Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 11 April, 1992, p. 6.Google Scholar
Kozyrev, A. “Partiya voiny nastupaet—i v Moldove, i v Gruzii, i v Rossii,” Izvestiya, 30 June, 1992, p. 3.Google Scholar
Kozyrev, A. “Soyuz ostavil Rossii plokhoe vneshnepoliticheskoe nasledstvo,” Izvestiya, 1 April, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
Kozyrev, A. “Vyzov preobrazheniya,” Izvestiya, 31 Mar, 1992.Google Scholar
“Lyoboe pogranichnye pretenzii sevodnya—eto neminouemoe krovoprolitie,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 6 May, 1992, p. 5.Google Scholar
Malashenko, A. “Rossiya i islam,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 22 Feb. 1992, p. 3,Google Scholar
“Moskva predlagaet zashzhishzhat demokratiyu s pomoshzhyu politseiskikh sil OON,” Izvestiya, 14 Feb, 1992, p. 5.Google Scholar
“Nad Dnestrom votsarilas'tishina,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 9 April, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
“Nash dolg ostaetsya s nami,” Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 21 April, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
Pavlova-Sir'vanskaya, M. “U Rossii est’ shans ostatsya velikoi derzhavoi,” Izvestiya, 21 Feb, 1992, p. 3.Google Scholar
“Postanovlenie Verkhovnogo Soveta Rossiiskoi Federatsii,” Izvestiya, 1 Feb, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
“Pozitsiya gosudarstvennogo soveta pri prezidente RSFSR,” Izvestiya, 1 Oct, 1991, p. 1.Google Scholar
“Prezidentskii proekt zakona o pravitelste Rossii,” Izvestiya, 10 June, 1992, p. 2.Google Scholar
“Pribalty udivlyayutsya,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 7 March, 1992, p. 1.Google Scholar
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Stankevich, S. “Poka nikomu ne udavalos polnostyu isklyuchit'silu iz arsenala politiki,” Izvestiya, 7 July, 1992, p. 3.Google Scholar
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