Making It Personal? A Comparative Study of Institutional Constraints on Foreign Policy in Russia and China
Journal: Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
Year: 2020

By treating militarism and personalism as institutional constraints on foreign policy, this article examines the role and influence of these constraints on the foreign policies of Russia and China. By looking at empirical evidence the authors argue that domestic institutional constraints in each country have exhibited distinctly different patterns throughout the last twenty years, and this can to some extent explain the difference in their respective foreign policies. However, institutional pers