The Uses of Sovereignty in Twenty-first Century Russian Foreign Policy |
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Authors: | Ruth Deyermond |
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Affiliation: | Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK |
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Abstract: | Contemporary Russian foreign policy demonstrates a dual approach to state sovereignty, using a Westphalian model of sovereignty outside the former Soviet region and a post-Soviet model inside it. This approach performs three functions in contemporary Russian foreign policy: securing Russian national interests at domestic, regional, and international levels; balancing against the United States; and acting as a marker of ‘non-Western’ power identity in an emergent multipolar order. The conflict between these two models increasingly appears to threaten the last of these objectives, however, and as a means of advancing foreign policy objectives the approach thus appears caught in a self-defeating logic. |
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