{"id":4547,"date":"2018-06-18T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/diplomacy\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2018-06-24T22:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T02:51:27","slug":"russian-diplomacy-challenging-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/2018\/06\/russian-diplomacy-challenging-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Diplomacy: Challenging the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Charles E. Ziegler<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>*This is a revised version of \u201cDiplomacy,\u201d forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy, ed. Andrei P. Tsygankov (London: Routledge), Chapter 7.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to classical realism, diplomacy is the means by which states defend their interests and achieve their objectives short of war, using a mixture of persuasion, compromise, and the threat of force. In the quarter-century since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian diplomacy has evolved from a passive, Western-orientation toward a muscular, multilateral and assertive posture. In the immediate post-perestroika years Russian diplomacy reflected the nascent democratic character of the new Russia, and the search for a new post-Soviet identity. Since Vladimir Putin ascended to the presidency, Russian diplomacy has become highly effective at several diplomatic issues. These include: Promoting and representing Russian national interests; defending key principles of sovereignty; non-interference in internal affairs; and respect for Russia as a great power; consolidating the former Soviet space as a privileged sphere of Russian influence; and addressing Russia\u2019s vital security concerns in the Eurasian region, including concerns with The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) expansion eastward&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/files\/2018\/06\/Russian-Diplomacy-Challenging-the-West-1.pdf\">Click for Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles E. Ziegler *This is a revised version of \u201cDiplomacy,\u201d forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3907,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,349,141,637,330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-europe-2","category-europe","category-european-union","category-flashpoints-issue","category-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}