The Disguised Variable - The Influence of Russian Elite Clans on Russian Foreign Policy
Journal: Malmö University Publications (Malmö University)
Year: 2020

This paper analyzes the influence of Russian elite clans on Russian foreign policy-making. The goal of this paper is to discover the missing link that connects the changes in the International System to the formation of Russian foreign policy, more specifically the Russo-Georgian War, the occupation of Crimea, and the intervention in Syria. Therefore, the theory of neo-classical realism is applied to a systematic process analysis in order to trace the chain of causal relations in which the strug