Russian Foreign Policy between Security and Economics : Exporting Gas and Arms to Belarus and China 1990-2008

ISBN-13: 9783643104144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

Marcel Vietor

Opis

The author of this study provides an answer by analying two cases: Russian gas exports to Belarus and Russian arms exports to China. He draws the conclusion that, in contradiction to an alleged "securitisation" of Russian foreign policy, it is economic rationales of relevant sub-state actors, rather than the state's security rationales, that have determined Russian foreign policy on exports in strategic branches.

Marcel Vietor is head of the "Foreign Energy Policy" program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).

O autorze

Marcel Viëtor is Head of the "Foreign Energy Policy" programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He studied `Volkskunde' (Socio-Cultural Anthropology), East European Studies and Public Law at Universität Hamburg, as well as International Relations at cooperating universities in Berlin/Potsdam (MAIB) and at MGIMO in Moscow.