Russian Foreign Policy and International Relations Theory

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7546-1195-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

An original and challenging examination of how to transform post-Sovietological study of Soviet and Russian foreign policy into a more integrated part of the Social Sciences and International Relations Theory. This book represents the first detailed and sustained synthesis international relations theory and Soviet/Russian foreign and security policy in academic literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pursiainen, Christer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: The problem and the argument; How to evaluate theories?; The heritage of Soviet foreign policy studies; Russia and the international system; Russian foreign policy decision-making; The argument restated: beyond objectivism and relativism; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Christer Pursiainen, Senior researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland. Received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Helsinki University.