I Istomin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4642958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Istomin |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Istomin |
| SIGNATURE | ISTOMIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8334-6343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interference Debate within the UN: Record of Systematic Study
This article explores the interference discourse within the United Nations. Methodologically, the article proves that public rhetoric of states is representative with regard to their perception of interference. It also introduces a novel database on interference discourse based on speeches of national representatives at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) during the high-level week from 2004 to 2023. The debate at the United Nations reflects a persist…
As a Man Is, So Is His Company
Amid its confrontation with the West, Moscow faces the pressing need to reexamine its approach to alliance-building. Currently Moscow has to foster low-profile countersanction alignments. Meanwhile, the prospect of an armed clash with the United States and NATO makes one think about alliances that would strengthen Russia’s conventional deterrence. Formalizing defense commitments with China becomes an important prerequisite for addressing the incr…
International norms in the face of technological change: Challenges for constructivist theory of arms control
The emergence, diffusion and internalization of international norms face underestimated challenges in the sphere of arms control, which attempts to regulate and restrict the development and use of weapons. We explore the concept of uncertainty and reveal how it sets arms control apart from some other spheres that have experienced a rapid development and consolidation of international norms. The dynamic nature of technological change creates expec…
Conceptualizing the Crisis: The Debate between Rationalists and Skeptics
How not to interfere in another country's domestic politics
Foreign interference poses an increasing threat in the current tensions among major powers, given pervasive expectations regarding its strategic effects and low costs. Transborder operations seeking to undermine a government or reinforce it against opposition emerge as a safer alternative to forcible coercion. Such operations incorporate assistance to political groups and individuals within a target state aiming to reorient its foreign policy, we…
Management of Security Commitments in Asymmetric Alliances: The Case of Russia
Since the second half of the 20th century, military alliance ceased to play an essential role in ensuring the security of major powers. Meanwhile, asymmetric alliances, in which a major power remained an incontestable leader surrounded by weak parties, proliferated across international system. The literature explains these relationships in terms of an exchange in dissimilar benefits between states, following the formula “security for autonomy”. T…
Transnational Policy Networks and Change Through Internationalization (The Record of Project 5-100)
This article considers the ideational and political contexts in which Project 5-100, the Russian excellence in higher education initiative emerged, as well as the specificities of its organisational and behavioural model. While Project 5-100 has been studied in the academic literature as regards its efficiency and how it affected the performance and inner workings of the participating universities, the question of how the project came about and t…
Playing Russia Wisely? The Institutional Leverage of Smaller States in the Eaeu
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is a regional association comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The EAEU is a highly asymmetrical entity with a single dominant power. It is also one of the most deeply integrated and densely institutionalised regional associations. This article demonstrates that although the dominant power retains the ability to disregard constraints imposed on it, smaller partners can exert more lev…
Dynamics of International Alliances in an Unbalanced World Structure
Interstate military alliances have long been in the lens of theoretical and empirical research of international relations scholars. The classical view of alliances treated them as a tool for balancing amongst roughly equal players in a multi-polar anarchical environment. Meanwhile, the practice of international relations at least from the second half of the 20th century testifies to the rise of asymmetrical alliances as a new major type of milita…
The Logic of Counterpoint
Since the 2000s, the drive towards normative hegemony of liberalism promoted by the United States has contributed to the consolidation of new alignments on the international arena. As it posed an ideological threat to other systems of rule, American policy prompted some states towards balance by encouraging them to strengthen cooperation between themselves. This pattern of behavior is typical of any political belief system claiming to provide uni…
Transnistrian strategy in the context of Russian–Ukrainian relations: The rise and failure of ‘dual alignment’
The diversification of allegiances with several more powerful states is seen as a way for minor actors to improve their strategic position in the international system. The result, however, could become less than desirable when these relations are both essential and contradictory. This article intends to examine the challenges for Transnistrian foreign policy through the concepts of bandwagoning and balancing. It uses alternative neorealist perspe…
Playing Russia Wisely? The Institutional Leverage of Smaller States in the Eaeu
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is a regional association comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The EAEU is a highly asymmetrical entity with a single dominant power. It is also one of the most deeply integrated and densely institutionalised regional associations. This article demonstrates that although the dominant power retains the ability to disregard constraints imposed on it, smaller partners can exert more lev…
How not to interfere in another country's domestic politics
Foreign interference poses an increasing threat in the current tensions among major powers, given pervasive expectations regarding its strategic effects and low costs. Transborder operations seeking to undermine a government or reinforce it against opposition emerge as a safer alternative to forcible coercion. Such operations incorporate assistance to political groups and individuals within a target state aiming to reorient its foreign policy, we…
Conceptualizing the Crisis: The Debate between Rationalists and Skeptics
Transnational Policy Networks and Change Through Internationalization (The Record of Project 5-100)
This article considers the ideational and political contexts in which Project 5-100, the Russian excellence in higher education initiative emerged, as well as the specificities of its organisational and behavioural model. While Project 5-100 has been studied in the academic literature as regards its efficiency and how it affected the performance and inner workings of the participating universities, the question of how the project came about and t…
Transnistrian strategy in the context of Russian–Ukrainian relations: The rise and failure of ‘dual alignment’
The diversification of allegiances with several more powerful states is seen as a way for minor actors to improve their strategic position in the international system. The result, however, could become less than desirable when these relations are both essential and contradictory. This article intends to examine the challenges for Transnistrian foreign policy through the concepts of bandwagoning and balancing. It uses alternative neorealist perspe…
Dynamics of International Alliances in an Unbalanced World Structure
Interstate military alliances have long been in the lens of theoretical and empirical research of international relations scholars. The classical view of alliances treated them as a tool for balancing amongst roughly equal players in a multi-polar anarchical environment. Meanwhile, the practice of international relations at least from the second half of the 20th century testifies to the rise of asymmetrical alliances as a new major type of milita…
The Logic of Counterpoint
Since the 2000s, the drive towards normative hegemony of liberalism promoted by the United States has contributed to the consolidation of new alignments on the international arena. As it posed an ideological threat to other systems of rule, American policy prompted some states towards balance by encouraging them to strengthen cooperation between themselves. This pattern of behavior is typical of any political belief system claiming to provide uni…
Management of Security Commitments in Asymmetric Alliances: The Case of Russia
Since the second half of the 20th century, military alliance ceased to play an essential role in ensuring the security of major powers. Meanwhile, asymmetric alliances, in which a major power remained an incontestable leader surrounded by weak parties, proliferated across international system. The literature explains these relationships in terms of an exchange in dissimilar benefits between states, following the formula “security for autonomy”. T…
Transnational Policy Networks and Change Through Internationalization (The Record of Project 5-100)
This article considers the ideational and political contexts in which Project 5-100, the Russian excellence in higher education initiative emerged, as well as the specificities of its organisational and behavioural model. While Project 5-100 has been studied in the academic literature as regards its efficiency and how it affected the performance and inner workings of the participating universities, the question of how the project came about and t…
Playing Russia Wisely? The Institutional Leverage of Smaller States in the Eaeu
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is a regional association comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The EAEU is a highly asymmetrical entity with a single dominant power. It is also one of the most deeply integrated and densely institutionalised regional associations. This article demonstrates that although the dominant power retains the ability to disregard constraints imposed on it, smaller partners can exert more lev…
Conceptualizing the Crisis: The Debate between Rationalists and Skeptics
How not to interfere in another country's domestic politics
Foreign interference poses an increasing threat in the current tensions among major powers, given pervasive expectations regarding its strategic effects and low costs. Transborder operations seeking to undermine a government or reinforce it against opposition emerge as a safer alternative to forcible coercion. Such operations incorporate assistance to political groups and individuals within a target state aiming to reorient its foreign policy, we…
International norms in the face of technological change: Challenges for constructivist theory of arms control
The emergence, diffusion and internalization of international norms face underestimated challenges in the sphere of arms control, which attempts to regulate and restrict the development and use of weapons. We explore the concept of uncertainty and reveal how it sets arms control apart from some other spheres that have experienced a rapid development and consolidation of international norms. The dynamic nature of technological change creates expec…
As a Man Is, So Is His Company
Amid its confrontation with the West, Moscow faces the pressing need to reexamine its approach to alliance-building. Currently Moscow has to foster low-profile countersanction alignments. Meanwhile, the prospect of an armed clash with the United States and NATO makes one think about alliances that would strengthen Russia’s conventional deterrence. Formalizing defense commitments with China becomes an important prerequisite for addressing the incr…
Interference Debate within the UN: Record of Systematic Study
This article explores the interference discourse within the United Nations. Methodologically, the article proves that public rhetoric of states is representative with regard to their perception of interference. It also introduces a novel database on interference discourse based on speeches of national representatives at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) during the high-level week from 2004 to 2023. The debate at the United Nations reflects a persist…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (6 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)