Titlebook: Russia and its Near Neighbours; Maria Raquel Freire (Assistant Professor),Roger E. Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan P

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Russia’s ‘Vital and Exclusive’ National Interests in the Near Abroadian policy documents.. One example is a quotation from an interview with Sergei Ryabkov, Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which from the opening words ‘national interests’ are given centre stage, when Ryabkov attributes the deterioration of US-Russia relations to the different understa

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Domestic Influences on Russian Foreign Policy: Status, Interests and relate to beliefs, values, important national symbols, unity and feelings of belonging that have formed over the course of history. The second is the sum of national interests that define a country’s needs, wishes and visions regarding the international community. Anne L. Clunan has argued that, in

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Nationalist Grievance and Russian Foreign Policy: The Case of Georgia policy underpinning growing confidence about Russia’s global position. From a Russia that could only say ‘yes’ to the West in the 1990s, the West was apparently now confronting a Russia that could, and would, say ‘no’ (Connor, 2007, pp. 383–91).