Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Laurynas Jonavicius, Laure Delcour, Rilka Dragneva and Kataryna Wolczuk<\/em><\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n EU-STRAT Working Paper No. 16 analyses Russia\u2019s policy towards its neighbourhood, with a focus on the strategies, policies, and instruments adopted in relation to EaP countries, particularly Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. Click on the title or the picture below to download the PDF. Title:\u00a0Russian Interests, Strategies, and Instruments in the Common Neighbourhood Author:\u00a0Laurynas Jonavicius, Laure…Continue reading New working paper on Russia\u2019s foreign policy towards the post-Soviet region<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The paper analyses the peculiarities of the Russian Federation\u2019s foreign policy towards the so-called post-soviet countries. It focuses on Russia\u2019s policies towards Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and the South Caucasus, with specific attention on how a complexity of foreign policy players, diverse available tools, and geopolitical as well as ideational, economic, and cultural interests are combined into a coherent strategy. The paper argues that despite common strategic goals \u2013 geopolitical security and Great Power identity \u2013 the interests of powerful domestic players hinder the creation of a consistent and long-term plan for how to achieve strategic goals. The domestic institutional logic of Russia as a Limited Access Order (LAO) creates significant obstacles for long-term planning and makes Russian policy in the post-soviet space tactical rather than strategic. The existing patterns of asymmetrical economic, political, and cultural interdependence of neighbouring countries with Russia allows Moscow to achieve short-term victories. These victories are, however, mainly determined by the rigid use of hard power tools, which in the long run reduces Russia\u2019s attractiveness and forces neighbouring countries to look for alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"