Institutionalization, Policy Adaptation and European Foreign Policy Cooperation

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Identity and Foreign Policy

Discourse Analysis and Foreign Policy Analysis: Introducing Speech Act Theory in European Foreign and Security Policy

Asbtract This paper elaborates on an FPA approach of EFP and on the added value of certain social constructivist approaches relying on discourse analysis. While discourse analysis has sometimes been presented as competing with traditional approaches of FPA, both can also be seen as complementary, we will draw on a revised FPA framework (White, 2001) and highlight how a discourse analysis approa...

russia`s aggressive foreign policy and european strategic balance

from 2006 to 2008 russian government adopted an aggressive foreign policy toward the west, particularly the united states. in this article, the author claims that one should search for the main factor in the ‘feeling danger in the european borders of russia’ and more clearly in ‘serious endangering of european balance of power’ from the perspective of russian authorities after 60 years. i have ...

the foreign policy of russia toward caucasus 2000-2008

after the soviet union dissolution, a chaotic period was begun in the russia. russia lost its glory and felt disgrace. the first group of elites came to power under yeltsin; they tried to re-define russia’s identity as a european country and build a foreign policy on this baseline. therefore russia tried to become closer with the west especially with the u.s. according to their view the sovie...