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 is and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman looks into the thinking of Russian citizens about such matters as NATO expansion. Drawing on nearly a decade of 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 ...
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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 is and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman looks into the thinking of Russian citizens about such matters as NATO expansion. Drawing on nearly a decade of 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 view 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 towards isolationism than did the elites who steered Russia's foreign policy in the 1990s.
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