Why do we need a multi-level approach to the analysis of Russian foreign policy? Role theory and the Ukraine crisis?
Journal: Studia Politologiczne
Year: 2020

This article presents the main theoretical approaches to the analysis of Russian foreign policy and assesses their contributions. I argue that although Russia’s international behaviour has been broadly analysed, realism, liberalism, and constructivism leave much unexplained and do not pay enough attention to the understanding of Russia’s perceptions and interactions between domestic and foreign factors. As such, the application of multi- level frameworks is advocated and role theory is proposed