Russian Foreign Policy - From Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin

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Michael Rossi
Department of Political Science
Masters Program in United Nations and Global Studies
Rutgers University

Russian Foreign Policy - Summer 2022

The lecture for the second week in Russian Foreign Policy comes in two parts.

The first part identifies key moments and developments in Russian international relations vis-a-vis the United States, NATO, and global development with a particular emphasis on the importance of Russia in the 1990s.

Assigned Readings for class:

PBS Charlie Rose – Vladimir Putin Interview (2015).
   • Vladimir Putin Interviewed by Charlie Rose...  

Sergei Lavrov – “Russia’s Foreign Policy: Historical Background”, Russia in Global Affairs, March 3, 2016.
https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles...

Michael Hirsh, “Putin’s Thousand Year War”, Foreign Policy, March 12, 2022
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/12/...

Read at least one

Domenico Valenza, “Russia’s Cultural Diplomacy in the Post-Soviet Space: The Making of ‘One People’”, Eurasian Geography and Economics (January 2022)

Nicolai Petro, “The Surprising Allure of Russian Soft Power”, American Diplomacy (April 2018)
https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu...

Ben Sohl, “Discolored Revolutions: Information Warfare in Russia’s Grand Strategy”, The Washington Quarterly vol 45, no.1 (2022), pp. 97 – 111

Chapter Markers:

00:00:40 - Introduction
00:10:45 - Post-Soviet Russia under Boris Yeltsin
00:34:50 - Enter Vladimir Putin
00:55:08 - Russia Resurgent and Reoriented
01:19:55 - Balance Sheet