The Russian Realist School of International Relations

In: Communist and post-communist studies, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 37-51

Abstract

This article analyses realist school in the Russian international relations scholarship & discusses the debates among Russian realists. It focuses on the characteristics of the newly emerging world order & the development of an adequate strategy for Russia to pursue in its international behavior. The authors argue that over the 1990s, realism has made considerable intellectual progress & has gained the status of a leading intellectual movement in Russia. It assisted Russian intellectual & political community in defining the country's interests & priorities in the emerging international relations, & it provided a necessary analysis of the world order's structure & polarity. 67 References. [Copyright 2004 The Regents of the University of California; published by Elsevier Ltd.]