Russian Foreign Policy, 2000–2024: Between the Global North and the Global South
摘要
Russia’s “romance with the West” in the 1990s failed to materialize. By the late 1990s, Western policymakers had lost hope that Russia would become a “normal” democratic state by Western standards; for their part, a significant portion of the Russian elite had grown disillusioned with cooperation with the West (Shevtsova, 2010). These sentiments were embodied by the new Russian president, Vladimir Putin (1999–2008, 2012–).