The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy
The project aims to comprehensively identify patterns associated with Russia’s engagement in multilateral institutions both within and outside the post-Soviet spaceParticipants
Stina Torjesen
Elana Wilson Rowe
Jakub M. Godzimirski
Throughout the post-Soviet period, Russian leaders have consistently professed a deep attachment to the principles of multilateralism. However, multilateralism as a value, concept strategy or general phenomenon in Russian foreign policy has seldom been assessed in its own right or from a comparative perspective. ‘The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy’ project, which includes the 2006 Centre for Russian Studies Annual Conference and an edited book, aims to comprehensively identify patterns associated with Russia’s engagement in multilateral institutions both within and outside the post-Soviet space. The chapters in the edited volume (forthcoming 2008, Routledge) provide both wider conceptual perspectives on the place of multilateralism in Russian foreign policy (chs. 1-3) and detailed empirical case studies of Russian multilateral engagement at the global, Transatlantic and European levels (chs. 4-9) and in Russia’s ‘near abroad’ (chs. 9-11). The contributing authors, hailing from Russia, the UK, USA, Germany and Norway, focus primarily on recent Russian foreign policy under the Putin presidencies and point to which characteristics of this multilateral engagement are likely to endure in the medium-term. The volume covers Russian multilateral engagement in the UN, NATO, G8, EU, OSCE, Arctic Council, Eurasian Economic Community, Commonwealth of Independent States, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Collective Security Treaty Organization.
Funding
- Wilson Rowe, Elana , Stina Torjesen [ed.] (2008). The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy. Abingdon, Routledge. 240 pages. This book examines the place of multilateralism in Russia’s foreign policy and Russia’s engagement with multilateral institutions.