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Introduction

The weekly topic is assigned with two articles (journal articles or book chapters).

Discussion

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Tsarist and Soviet Foreign Policy

• Robert H. Donaldson, Joseph L. Nogee, and Vidya Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, 5^th ed. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2014), ch. 2.


• Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5^th ed., chs. 3-4.

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The Sources and Making of Russian Foreign Policy

• Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5^th ed., ch. 5.


• Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Christopher Marsh, Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors, and Sectors (Los Angeles, CA: CQ Press, 2014), ch.2.

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IR Theory and Russian Foreign Policy

• Dina Rome Spechler, “Russian Foreign Policy During the Putin Presidency: The Impact of Competing Approaches,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 57, No. 5 (September/October 2010), pp. 35-50.


• Christopher Browning, “Reassessing Putin’s Project: Reflections on IR Theory and the West,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 55, No. 5 (September/October 2008), pp. 3-13.

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Russia’s Grand Strategy

• Andrei P. Tsygankov, “Preserving Influence in a Changing World: Russia’s Grand Strategy,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 58, No. 2 (March/April 2011), pp. 28-44.


• Andrei P. Tsygankov, “Assessing Cultural and Regime-Based Explanations of Russia’s Foreign Policy: ‘Authoritarian at Heart and Expansionist by Habit’?” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 64, No. 4 (June 2012), pp. 695-713.

Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading

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Tomb Sweeping Festival

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The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence

• Andrei P. Tsygankov, Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, 4^th ed. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), ch. 1.


• Deborah Welch Larson, “Russia Says No: Power, Status, and Emotions in Foreign Policy,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47 (2014), pp. 269-279.

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Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy

• Peter Rutland and Andrei Kazantsev, “The Limits of Russia’s ‘Soft Power’,” The Journal of Political Power, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2016), pp. 395-413.


• Jeanne L. Wilson, “Soft Power: A Comparison of Discourse and Practice in Russia and China,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 67, No. 8 (Oct. 2015), pp. 1171-1202.

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Rearmament, Public Opinion and Russian Foreign Policy

• Una Hakvag, “Russian Defense Spending after 2010: The Interplay of Personal, Domestic, and Foreign Policy Interests,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 6 (2017), pp. 496-510.


• Valeria Kasamara & Anna Sorokina, “Rebuilt Empire or New Collapse? Geopolitical Visions of Russian Students,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 2 (March 2017), pp. 262-283.

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Former Soviet Union I

• Natalia Vasilyeva and maria Lagutina, “Eurasian Economic Union in the Russian Foreign Policy,” in Natalia Tsvetkova, ed., Russia and the World: Understanding International Relations (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017), ch. 15.


• Marcin Kaczmarski, “Two Way of Influence-building: The Eurasian Economic Union and the One Belt, One Road Initiative,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 7 (Sept. 2017), pp. 1027-1046.

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Former Soviet Union II

• Andre W. M. Gerrits and Max Bader, “Russian Patronage over Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Implications for Conflict Resolution,” East European Politics, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2016), pp. 297-313.


• James Hughes and Gwendolyn Sasse, “Power Ideas and Conflict: Ideology, Linkage and Leverage in Crimea and Chechnya,” East European Politics, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2016), pp. 314-334.

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Russia and the EU/NATO

• Joan DeBardeleben, “Applying Constructivism to Understanding EU-Russian Relations,” International Politics, Vol. 49, No. 4 (2012), pp. 418-433.


• Simon Duke and Garmen Gebhard, “The EU and NATO’s Dilemmas with Russia and the Prospects for Deconfliction,” European Security, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2017), pp. 379-397.

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Russia and the United States

• Andrew C. Kuchins, “Mismatched Partners: US-Russia Relations after the Cold War,” in David Cadier and Margot Light, eds., Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), ch. 7.


• Peter Rutland, “Trump, Putin, and the Future of US-Russian Relations,” Slavic Review 76, No. S1 (2017), pp. 41-56.

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Russia and Asia

• Ekaterina Koldunova, “Russia’s Involvement in Regional Cooperation in East Asia,” Asian Survey, Vol. 56, No. 3 (May/June 2016), pp. 532-554.


• Stephen Fortescue, “Russia’s ‘Turn to the East’: A Study in Policy Making,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 5 (2016), pp. 423-454.

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Russia and China

• Marcin Kaczmarski, “Domestic Sources of Russia’s China Policy,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 59, No. 2 (March/April 2012), pp. 3-17.


• Thomas Ambrosio, “The Architecture of Alignment: The Russia-China Relationship and International Agreements,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January 2017), pp. 110-156.

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Russia and the Middle East

• Roland Dannreuther, “Russia and the Middle East: A Cold War Paradigm?” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 64, No. 3 (May 2012), pp. 543-560.


• Derek Averre and Lance Davies, “Russia, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: The Case of Syria,” International Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 4 (2015), pp. 813-834.

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Russia and Latin America, and Africa

• Gvosdev and Marsh, “Africa and Latin America: The Southern Vector,” in Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors, and Sectors, ch. 10.


• Stephen Blank and Younkyoo Kim, “Russia and Latin America: The New Frontier for Geopolitics, Arms Sales and Energy,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 62 (2015), pp. 159-173.

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