Engaging the Global South with Ideology and Pragmatism: Russia's Re-Emergence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal: Global Studies Quarterly
Year: 2025

Abstract Russian foreign policy aims to subvert the West-centered world order established after the Cold War. While promoting the post-Western civilizational and “post-colonial” ideology since the mid-2010s, Moscow has been pragmatic and dependent on its limited foreign policy resources, on the one hand, and the mixed receptivity of different audiences to Russia's ideological message, on the other. To test this argument, the paper selects three cases from Sub-Saharan Africa, where Russia has bee