Actors of Belarusian “Multivector” Foreign Policy towards the EU in the 2010s

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ID6172491
AuthorsEkaterina Pierson-Lyzhina (0000-0002-4373-9214, Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL), Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue1
Pages56-86
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Belarusian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0075-4161 • E-ISSN: 2052-6512
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.30965/20526512-12350007
OpenAlexW3165751691
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

From 2007 and throughout the 2010s the role of the Belarusian diplomatic service has grown in importance following the adoption of a new foreign policy strategy. The new strategy moved away from focusing solely on Russia and involved engaging with alterative actors such as the EU. While the diversification of Belarusian foreign policy attracted the attention of a number of scholars, little has been written so far about the elites implementing this change. This article analyses the changes in the Belarusian decision-making and implementation process on questions of foreign policy in the 2010s in comparison with the previous decade. The study also compares career trajectories of Belarusian diplomats working on the EU “vector” with another emerging vector called the “far arc”. All these elements, on one hand, reflect the growing diversity of Minsk’s foreign policy, and, on the other, more specifically the oscillations of foreign policy towards the EU

Business · Diversification (marketing strategy · European union · Foreign policy · International trade · Political science · Politics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European and International Law Studies · European Politics and Security · Law · Marketing · Public Administration

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