Russia’s Monroe Doctrine: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking or Imperial Outreach?
Russia’s Monroe Doctrine: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking or Imperial Outreach?
Author(s): Teresa Rakowska-HarmstoneSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism, Cold-War History, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Collegium Civitas
Keywords: Russia; Ukraine; Soviet Union; Baltics; Transnistria; Caucasus; Central Asia; foreign policy; geopolitics of Russia; conflicts
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the important changes in the Russian foreign policy doctrines that occurred in the beginnings of the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Author argues that the officially claimed devotion to peacemaking and peacekeeping are in fact manifestations of the Russian imperial outreach. The model of international relations promoted by Moscow in fact resembles the American 19th century Monroe Doctrine. Thus, the foreign policy doctrine and the potential national conflicts in the post-Soviet territory may become triggers for Russian actions aiming at restoring the Russian Empire.
Journal: Securitologia
- Issue Year: 1/2014
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 7-45
- Page Count: 39
- Language: English
