CIAO DATE: 04/2009
February 2009
Centre for European Policy Studies
The paper first summarises Russia’s present critique of the international security architecture and its aspiration to build something new and better. The author then presents a matrix of four models of international society as a framework within which to try and discern what Russia may be seeking. While it is clear that Russia objects to one of these models, that of a unipolar US-led world, its current foreign policy discourse and actions offer no clear guidance as to what its aims are in this regard, as there are confusions and contradictions in the different elements of official Russian discourse.
Resource link: Russia and its 'New Security Architecture' in Europe: A Critical Examination of the Concept [PDF] - 166K