Conflict-dependent Russia. The domestic determinants of the Kremlin's anti-western policy. OSW Point of View 67, November 2017

Domańska, Maria (2017) Conflict-dependent Russia. The domestic determinants of the Kremlin's anti-western policy. OSW Point of View 67, November 2017. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

The Kremlin’s foreign policy is subordinate above all to the domestic political aims of the ruling elite. The most important of these is the maintenance and legitimistaion of the Chekist-kleptocratic model of feudalism. In this model, which is fundamentally opposed to the Western model of liberal democracy, the state is the de facto property of a small group of decision-makers, and the rules of international interactions are dictated by the logic of the ‘zero-sum game’.

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