• ISBN13: 9781032189956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Encyclopaedias and References
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: December 10, 2023
• Pages: 496
• Original Price: 200.0 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 930 grams

This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects. It identifies the place and role of Russia in global IR and discusses the factors that facilitate or impede the development of Russian IR studies. The contributors represent diverse Russian regions and IR schools and offer an overview of different intellectual traditions and key IR paradigms in the post-Soviet era. Filling the vacuum in international understanding of the Russian perspective on pivotal international issues, they demonstrate the continuity and change in Russia’s international policy course over the past three decades and explain how different foreign policy schools and concepts have affected Russian foreign policy making and the decision-making process. Providing a unique contribution to the discussion on non-Western IR theory, this handbook will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, Russian studies, world politics, and international studies.

Maria Lagutina is professor of world politics department at St. Petersburg State University. She is a doctor of political sciences. Professor Lagutina’s current research interests are oriented towards Eurasian integration and its regional and global dimensions, BRICS, global governance, regional integration, comparative regionalism, and international cooperation in the Arctic. Among her publications: The Russian Project of Eurasian Integration: Geopolitical Prospects (Lexington 2016; co-authored with N. Vasilyeva); Russia’s Arctic Policy in the Twenty-first Century: National and International Dimensions (Lexington 2019).

Alexander Sergunin is a professor of international relations at St. Petersburg State University and a professor of political science at the Nizhny Novgorod University (part time). A specialist in Russian foreign policy thinking and making, his relevant publications include Explaining Russian Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (2016).

Natalia Tsvetkova is a professor of history and head of the American studies department at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She writes about the cultural Cold War, cultural diplomacy, and extensively about current public and digital diplomacy. Among her publications: Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990 (Brill, 2021) and Russia and the World: Understanding International Relations (Lexington 2017, 2020).