Il sistema politico della Russia e lo “specchio” del Caucaso

The goals pursued by Russia through its foreign policy have placed primary emphasis on ensuring national security and territorial integrity, on promoting a non-threatening external environment, the economic well-being of the country, and enhancing national prestige by a centralized-authoritarian political system. However, the main paradox of contemporary Russia lies in the continuing ambivalence between the rebuilding of a centralized political system and a pervasive sense of insecutiry, The imprint of the past on contemporary Russian foreign policy is clearly visible: Russia's insecurity led to insecurity of its neighbors. The inability to accept Russia's new geopolitical borders stimulates the old question of the rebuilding of an imperial state towards a renewed control within the country, its regions and across Near Abroad. Russian foreign policy has its roots in both domestic and foreign forces: the Caucasus is a typical "mirror" of Russia's new internal and international condition

Il Caucaso rappresenta la regione di maggiori contrasti e frammentazione nella quale si specchiano le contraddizioni della Russia post sovietica, alle prese con una sua complessità interna e una precaria politica estera nei confronti del near abroad, che rivelano rigidità e fragilità al tempo stesso.