چکیده:
The Russian foreign policy toward various issues is often combined with complexity، ambiguity and conflicts. This fact was true at least in the history of relations between Iran and Russia، so that Russian face is depicted as an unreliable partner for the Iranian citizens and elites. With the importance of this issue، the study aims to answer this central question: what are the reasons for these complexities and conflicts in Russian foreign policy? The research hypothesis is that the conflicting sociological foundations in Russian society produces conflicts in foreign policy; The conflicts that appear in levels of socio-intellectual currents، political parties، and informal patronage networks reproduce conflicting approaches in foreign policy of Russia The findings show that Russian foreign policy is in contention between the following conflicting foreign policy approaches: pro-western liberal، great power balancer، and nationalism in various forms of Russian ethnocentrism، pan-Slavism، regional hegemony and neo-imperialism. This research was conducted within the Constructivism approach in which foreign policy is influenced by internal process and Conflict and cooperation between different socio-cultural orientations.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The article's hypothesis is that the conflict in Russian foreign policy is the result of the existence of conflicting intellectual and cultural currents in Russian society; conflicts that have appeared at the level of conflicting parties and political groups and competing support networks, leading to the reproduction of conflicting approaches in the arena of Russian foreign policy.
Within this framework, foreign policy is linked to domestic policies and is interpreted as a result of the conflict and cooperation of socio-cultural currents, and thus various variables and components including public culture, identity, intellectual currents, political parties and groups, and informal support networks are studied.
Conflict Theory Conflicting Approaches in Russian Foreign Policy 251 It is rooted in the internal society of this country; with the argument that dualities and conflicting approaches (including isolationism - interventionism, Eastern identity - Western identity, superpower ambition - normal country, liberalism - socialism) have led to the formation of conflicting political parties and groups that, along with competing support networks, reproduce conflicting approaches and ambiguity in the decisions and actions of Russian leaders in the arena of foreign policy.
Constructivism, through the identity politics approach, tries to explain the role and influence of intersubjective communities such as nationalism, ethnicity, identity, religion, culture, gender, and other social groups in the foreign policy behavior of countries (Dehghani Firouzabadi, 2009: 43; Wendt, 2005: 168-167).
From this perspective, understanding Russia's foreign policy behavior in international relations requires attention to the actors, parties, groups, and political and social currents that are active in this country.
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