Semester	Spring Semester, 2021
Department	Graduate Institute of Russian Studies MA Program, First Year Graduate Institute of Russian Studies MA Program, Second Year
Course Name	Russian Foreign Policy
Instructor	LIN YUNG-FANG
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Elective
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

週次 Week	課程主題 Topic	課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment	教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework	學習投入時間 Student workload expectation
週次 Week	課程主題 Topic	課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment	教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework	課堂講授 In-class Hours	課程前後 Outside-of-class Hours
1	Course Introduction	For a detailed syllabus, please see the course attachment.	Twice a semester, students must prepare a ten-minute oral presentation, based on one of the assigned articles of their choice.	3	0
2	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.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
3	The Sources and Making of Russian Foreign Policy	Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5^th ed., ch. 5. Michael McFaul, “Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy,” International Security, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Fall 2020), pp. 95-139.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
4	The Return of Global Russia	Elias Gotz and Camille-Renaud Merlen, “Russia and the Question of World Order,” European Politics and Society, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2019), pp. 133-153. Paul Stronski and Richard Sokolsky, “The Return of Global Russia: An Analytical Framework,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
5	Eurasianism and Greater Eurasia	Peter J. Katzenstein and Nicole Weygandt, “Mapping Eurasia in an Open World: How the Insularity of Russia’s Geopolitical and Civilizational Approaches Limits Its Foreign Policies,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 428-442. David G. Lewis, “Geopolitical Imaginaries in Russian Foreign Policy: The Evolution of ‘Greater Eurasia’,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70, No. 10 (Dec. 2018), pp. 1612-1637.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
6	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.		3	6
7	Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy	Valentina Feklyunina, “Soft Power and Identity: Russia, Ukraine and the ‘Russian World(s)’,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2016), pp. 773-796. Milos Popovic, Erin K. Jenne, & Ruraj Medzihorsky, “Charm Offensive or Offensive Charm? An Analysis of Russian and Chinese Cultural Institutes Abroad,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 72, No. 9 (Nov. 2020), pp. 1445-1467.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
8	Hard Power and Russian Foreign Policy	Bettina Renz, “Russian Responses to the Changing Character of War,” International Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 4 (2019), pp. 817-834. Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, “Russian Strategic Deterrence,” Survival, Vol. 58, No. 4 (August-September 2016), pp. 7-26.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
9	Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space I	Andrej Krickovic and Maxim Bratersky, “Benevolent Hegemon, Neighborhood Bully, or Regional Security Provider? Russia’s Efforts to Promote Regional Integration after the 2013-2014 Ukraine Crisis,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2016), pp. 180-202. Andrey Sushentsov and Nikita Neklyudov, “The Caucasus in Russian Foreign Policy Strategy,” Caucasus Survey, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2020), pp. 127-141.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
10	Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space II	Tatyana Malyarenko and Stefan Wolff, “The Logic of Competitive Influence-Seeking: Russia, Ukraine, and the Conflict in Donbas,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2018), pp. 191-212. Erika Harris, “What is the Role of Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Russia-Ukraine Crisis?” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 72, No. 4 (May 2020), pp. 593-613.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
11	Russia and the EU/NATO	Marco Siddi, “The Role of Power in EU-Russia Energy Relations: The Interplay between Markets and Geopolitics,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70, No. 10 (Dec. 2018), pp. 1552-1571. Andrei P. Tsygankov, “The Sources of Russia’s Fear of NATO,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 51 (2018), pp. 101-111.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
12	Russia and the United States	Charles E. Ziegler, “Russian-American Relations: From Tsarism to Putin,” International Politics, Vol. 51, No. 6 (2014), pp. 671-692. Richard Sokolsky and Eugene Rumer, “U.S.-Russian Relations in 2030,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
13	Athletic contests			0	0
14	Russia and Asia	Stephen Fortescue, “Russia’s ‘Turn to the East’: A Study in Policy Making,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 5 (2016), pp. 423-454. Glenn Diesen, “The Geoeconomics of the Russian-Japanese Territorial Dispute,” Asian Survey, Vol. 58, No. 3 (2018), pp. 582-605.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
15	Russia and China	Elizabeth Wishnick, “In Search of the ‘Other’ in Asia: Russia-China Relations Revisited,” The Pacific Review, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2017), pp. 114-132. Tom Roseth, “Moscow’s Response to a Rising China: Russia’s Partnership Policies in Its Military Relations with Beijing,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 66, No. 4 (2019), pp. 268-286.	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
16	Russia and the Arctic, and the Middle East,	Vahid Nick Pay and Harry Gray Calvo, “Arctic Diplomacy: A Theoretical Evaluation of Russian Foreign Policy in the High North,” Russian Politics 5 (2020), pp. 105-130. Nikolay Kozhanov, “Russian Policy Across the Middle East: Motivations and Methods,” Russia and Eurasian Programme, Chatham House,	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
17	Russia and Latin America, and Africa	Elena Pavlova, “A Russian Challenge to Multipolarity? The Prospects for Political Cooperation between Russia and Latin America,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 65, No. 6 (2018), pp. 394-408. Paul Stronski, “Late to the Party: Russia’s Return to Africa,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,	Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading	3	6
18	Final Paper		Discussion	0	0

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

Requirement/Grading

Class participation (25%): Students are expected to attend regularly, to read the assigned readings, and to actively participate in class discussions.

Presentations (25%): Each student is required to give three ten-minute oral presentations. The first two are to present reviews of the assigned readings of the weekly topic, and the final one is to present the research proposal of the final paper.

Final paper (50%): Each student is required to write a research paper (5,000-8,000 words) related to the topics covered in the course.

Textbook & Reference

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).

David Cadier and Margot Light, eds., Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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

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

Andrei P. Tsygankov, ed., Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Natalia Tsvetkova, ed., Russia and the World: Understanding International Relations (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017).

Urls about Course

Attachment

syllabus.pdf