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Continuity and change in soviet and russian grand strategy
Lacking the superpower status and global reach of the former Soviet Union, Russia is striving to tailor its power-status aspirations to the constraints and imperatives thrown up by the new international system and its domestic politics. The article sheds light on Russia’s great power possibilities by examining the strategic alternatives through which it would be able to play its part in world politics. The argument set forth here is that putting on the role of a reliable strategic partner in global leadership with the EU is the most effective strategy for it to have a determining say in international affairs.
Today’s Russian Federation is the legitimate successor to the former Soviet Union. The breakup of the latter, almost two years
after the end of the Cold War following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the crumbling of the Warsaw Pact, did not drag the
former into disintegration or demise. Despite the withdrawal from territories that had been under Soviet rule in the ‘near
abroad’ and around the Soviet flag worldwide, and despite the Chechen secessionist movement, Moscow remained the glorious
capital of a Russia that, while profoundly wounded in its greatness and international prestige, was nevertheless territorially
united and nationally sovereign.
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