The Russian people and foreign policy : Russian elite and mass perspectives, 1993-2000 / William Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, William, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elite (Social sciences)--Russia (Federation).

Elite (Social sciences).

Political participation--Russia (Federation).

Political participation.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers important and sometimes disturbing insight into the thinking of citizens in America's former Cold War adversary about such matters as NATO expansion. Drawing on nearly a decade of unprecedented surveys he conducted with a wide spectrum of the Russian public, he gauges the impact of Russia's opening on its foreign policy and how liberal democrats orient themselves to foreign policy. He also shows that insights from the study of American foreign policy are often "portable" to the study of Russian foreign policy attitudes. As Zimmerman shows, the general public, which had a modest but real role in foreign policy decision making, tended much more toward isolationism than did the predominant elites who steered Russia's foreign policy in the 1990s. Interspersing smooth prose with a wide array of richly informative tables, the book represents an invaluable opportunity to discern probable shifts in Russian foreign policy that domestic political changes would bring. And it powerfully suggests that the West, by forging its own policies toward Russia with more prudence, can have a say in the outcome of the great choice facing Russia--whether to forge ahead with democracy or slip back into authoritarianism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Elites, Attentive Publics, and Masses in Post-Soviet Russia

Chapter 2. Politics and Markets, with Judith Kullberg

Chapter 3. Elite-Mass Interactions, Knowledge, and Russian Foreign Policy

Chapter 4. Orientations to the International System and Electoral Behavior in Russia

Chapter 5. Elite Political-Economic Orientations and Foreign Policy

Chapter 6. NATO Expansion Past and Future: A Closer Look

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9786612158742

9781400818815

1400818818

9781282158740

1282158740

9781400824991

1400824990

9781400814862

1400814863

OCLC:

436086222