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Power, Culture, and Elite Interactions: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of US Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy towards Russia, 1993-2001

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dc.contributor Blagden, David
dc.contributor Porter, Patrick
dc.creator Dogan, H
dc.date 2022-09-26T08:33:46Z
dc.date 2022-09-26
dc.date 2022-09-22T14:08:13Z
dc.date 2022-09-26T08:33:46Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-23T12:16:48Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-23T12:16:48Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/130962
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/258642
dc.description Neoclassical realism (NCR), which combines both international structural and domestic variables, has provided a powerful explanatory framework for foreign policy analysis. Despite important theoretical developments in analysing the vertical interactions between systemic pressures and domestic cultural-ideational attributes, however, the paradigm is still inadequate due to its lack of attention to the horizontal interactions between states’ elites. In this thesis, I develop a neoclassical realist framework through identifying an additional intervening variable to fill in that gap; i.e. elite interactions between states. I test my theory refinement empirically through a crucial case study of the United States’ grand strategy and foreign policy towards Russia in the post-Cold War decade. Throughout the Clinton administration(s) there was a broad continuity of unipolarity (systemic variable) and American liberal-capitalist (Open Door) strategic culture (intervening variable), while the United States’ Russia strategy (dependent variable) displayed pronounced variations. In this case I add elites’ interactions between states as an additional conditioner to analyse specific and dynamic foreign policy behaviours. This addition advances the theory of NCR as empirical analysis shows that these variations in the content, timing, and form of the United States’ Russia policy took place due to American elites’ interactions with their Russian counterparts.
dc.publisher University of Exeter
dc.publisher Politics
dc.rights 2026-12-31
dc.rights Publication
dc.rights http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
dc.subject Neoclassical Realism
dc.subject US grand strategy
dc.subject US-Russia relations
dc.subject Power
dc.subject Strategic Culture
dc.subject Elite Interactions
dc.subject Shock Therapy
dc.subject NATO expansion
dc.subject Democracy Promotion
dc.title Power, Culture, and Elite Interactions: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of US Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy towards Russia, 1993-2001
dc.type Thesis or dissertation
dc.type Phd in Strategy and Security
dc.type Doctoral
dc.type Doctoral Thesis


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