TEMCHENKO-ZAVYALOVA A.O. “Eastern Turn” of Russian Foreign Policy: Causes, Risks, and the Reaction of the West
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2016.3.11
Anastasia O. Temchenko-Zavyalova
Postgraduate Student, Faculty of Sociology,
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Leninskie Gory St., 1, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract. The author analyzes the evolution of foreign policy of new Russia, identifies trends and patterns of transition to various courses, prerequisites of the “eastern turn”, and characterizes the specificity of this direction in the contemporary realia. The author proposes a number of clarifying concepts within the analysis of the foreign policies of Russia. The foreign policy of Russia for the last decades underwent a number of the changes connected with its orientation to various groups of the countries. However, in connection with the events which took place in 2014, the Russian foreign policy carried out the “eastern turn” that entailed certain consequences and prospects by estimates of experts. The relevance of the research consists in the opportunity to estimate realities of a foreign policy of Russia, to analyse the reasons of its acceptance, possible risks and reaction of the western partners who changed in their turn a course concerning Russia.
Scientific novelty of the present work consists in the systematization of the issue on the evolution of a foreign policy of Russia and the analysis of current trends taking into account the “eastern turn”. Besides, scientific definition of “eastern turn of the Russian foreign policy” and its consequence in the conditions of development of modern Russia is worked out. The author considers the main actions and the directions which formed the basis of the updated foreign policy of Russia from 2009 to 2013. The author made the conclusions concerning the analysis of modern Russia’s foreign policy and its turn to the east.
Key words: eastern turn, foreign policy, modernization, reboot, World Trade Organization, government, BRICS, the European Union.
“Eastern Turn” of Russian Foreign Policy: Causes, Risks, and the Reaction of the West by Temchenko-Zavyalova A.O. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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