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Author_William Zimmerman
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Belarus
Bill Clinton
Boris Yeltsin
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Chechnya
Citizens (Spanish political party)
Commonwealth of Independent States
Communism
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Democratization
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
Economic interdependence
Economic problem
Economy
Economy of Russia
Elite
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European Russia
Foreign policy
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Foreign relations of Russia
Freedom House
Gabriel Almond
Great power
Helmut Kohl
Inference
International Monetary Fund
International relations
Liberal democracy
Liberal elite
Literature
Lithuania
Market economy
Marxism
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Nomenklatura
Ole Holsti
Opportunity structures
Percentage
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Political culture
Political economy
Political Liberalism
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Princeton University Press
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Russia-United States relations
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Armed Forces
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Soviet Union
Third World
Treaty
Vladimir Putin
Voting
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World War II
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- ISBN 9780691091686
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers important and sometimes disturbing insight into the thinking of citizens in America's former Cold War adversary about such matters as NATO expansion. Drawing on nearly a decade of unprecedented surveys he conducted with a wide spectrum of the Russian public, he gauges the impact of Russia's opening on its foreign policy and how liberal democrats orient themselves to foreign policy. He also shows that insights from the study of American foreign policy are often "portable" to the study of Russian foreign policy attitudes. As Zimmerman shows, the general public, which had a modest but real role in foreign policy decision making, tended much more toward isolationism than did the predominant elites who steered Russia's foreign policy in the 1990s.
Interspersing smooth prose with a wide array of richly informative tables, the book represents an invaluable opportunity to discern probable shifts in Russian foreign policy that domestic political changes would bring. And it powerfully suggests that the West, by forging its own policies toward Russia with more prudence, can have a say in the outcome of the great choice facing Russia--whether to forge ahead with democracy or slip back into authoritarianism.
William Zimmerman is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. His books include Open Borders, Nonalignment and the Political Evolution of Yugoslavia and Soviet Perspectives on International Relations (both Princeton).
