Russia's Illusory Ambitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4452496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sherman Garnett, Sherman W Garnett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 61 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20047937 |
| OpenAlex | W2551368873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Although a children's story may seem an inappropriate analogy to describe Russian power, A. A. Milne's tale of the honey-seeking bear who wedges himself in a rabbit hole describes Moscow's strategic sit uation better than the usual hypotheses. Like the bear, Russia finds itself in a great tightness, caught between its lofty ambitions and re duced capabilities. While the Russian bear struggles to extricate it self from its predicament, the consolidation of new states like Ukraine and Uzbekistan, the rise of China, and the ambitions of rim land states finally freed from the constraints of the superpower rivalry and able to pursue genuinely autonomous foreign policies are trans forming the rest of Eurasia. The result is likely to be a Eurasia defined less by Russian power than by competition to fill the vacuum that Russia's troubles have created.1
Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Russia and Soviet political economy
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2010 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |