Bachelor 2025/2026

Russian Foreign Policy

Type: Compulsory course (International Programme 'International Relations and Global Studies')

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 4 year, 1, 2 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is aimed at understating of sources of continuity and discontinuity in contemporary Russian Foreign Policy, as well as the factors that shape Russian Foreign Policy after the end of the Cold war and dissolution of the USSR. Specificity and general patterns of the subject are studied with specific theoretical instruments and necessary empirical background. The course focuses on theoretical instruments of the Russian Foreign Policy analyses, factors of internal and external nature that shape Russian Foreign policy, its evolution since early 1990-s, as well as Russian Foreign Policy towards the major centres of power, key regions and international organizations.