Petropolitics and foreign policy : fiscal and institutional origins and patterns of Russian foreign policy, 1964-2012
Journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)
Year: 2014

Russian foreign policy from the mid-1960s has vacillated between periods of expansion and retrenchment in which the military and diplomatic reach of the state has extended to continents or been retracted to very modest conceptions of national defense.During this period, the financial centrality of energy exports has come to dominate the Russian economy, leading scholars and observers to draw a causal link between the two: as energy revenues go up, expansionism does as well, while declines in rev