The Role of Force in Russian Foreign Policy

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The purpose of this panel is to investigate the use of force in Russian foreign policy. Since much of Russian foreign policy is based on the obsession with being a great global policy and the memory of that status in the past, Russia habitually uses and regularly threatens force in its foreign policy instances globally. Indeed, it regards the use of force with impunity as being an attribute of great power status. Therefore we believe that looking at these cases will improve our understanding of Russian foreign pollicy.

Sub Unit

• International Relations, Security Studies, Foreign Policy

Chair

• Stephen Jerome Blank, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Papers

• Russia's War Against Europe - Natalie Melnyczuk, Michigan State U / Wayne State U

• Russian Use of Force in the Far East - Elizabeth Anne Wishnick, Columbia U

• How Russia Employs Force in the Middle East - Anna Borshchevskaya, Washington Inst for Near East Policy

• Russian Military Policy in Africa - Erin Sindle, U of St. Andrews (UK)

Discussant

• Stephen Jerome Blank, Foreign Policy Research Institute