Paradigms of the Russian Foreign Policy in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Era

Abstract

In this study, the foreign policy of the Russian Federation in the post-USSR era is analyzed. Influenced by its historical roots, the foreign policy of Russian Federation, has also been a subject worth to be analyzed due to its different characteristic properties in the new global order and depends on some basic paradigms. Keeping in mind the fact that the global system would be incomplete without Russia, philosophies, paradigms and perspectives that influence the Russian Foreign Policy especially in the last twenty five years are revealed. The topic is examined mainly under two headings, the Yeltsin era and the Putin era.