Entre asserção e equilíbrio : uma análise sobre a política externa russa na era Putin entre 1999 e 2019.

Abstract

This monography seeks to understand how the Putin Government aims to insert Russia in the International System of the XXI century. In order to do that, first, it was sought to verify the contributions of the realist perspective in the Foreign Policy Analysis area, as well as identify the actual capacities and vulnerabilities of the Russian power projection and to understand the role of the military interventions in the nation’s foreign policy, between the years of 1999 and 2019. Due to its importance as an actor in the International Politics and the expansion of its presence outside its zone of influence, it is necessary to understand how the Putin Government acts. Therefore, the elaboration of a descriptive-qualitative approach was chosen, using articles and books as the main sources for its elaboration, as well as data relevant to the discussion. What became evident, based on that, was that realism and its classic concepts stand out as an important tool to understand the Putin Government’s actions. In addition to that, it was realized that the Russian economic model poses as a potential obstacle to the maintenance of the Russian international agenda, strongly based on the security sphere. The Russian military interventions abroad are essential to understand the nation’s Foreign Policy, since they were responsible for reforming the military doctrine, adapting it to the new dynamics of the XXI century. Therefore, it is clear that the military sphere, supported by the diplomatic one, and dependent on the economic one, stands out as the main tool for the Russian insertion abroad, who seeks, first, the security and survival of its own regime and, second, a evolution of its status in the International System.