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This chapter evaluates the hypothesized relationship between the process of democratization and international security by examining the evolution of Russian/Soviet foreign policy. Methodologically, the analysis is conducted according to the longitudinal version of the ‘most similar systems’ research design in which otherwise ‘similar’ cases differ with respect to some characteristics (i.e. the process of democratization) the impact of which is being studied.1 Thus, the foreign policy decision-making process of the liberalizing, yet still authoritarian, elite under Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–91) is compared to foreign policy formulation during the process of democratic transition under Boris Yeltsin (1991–95).
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Kozhemiakin, A.V. (1998). Democratization and Foreign Policy Change in Russia. In: Expanding the Zone of Peace?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-99534-1_4
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