Resurgence of Russia in Global Affairs: Challenges of the New Normal.

Russia has re-emerged as an important global actor after the demise of the Soviet Union with a transformed foreign policy under the leadership of Vladimir Putin who does not believe in restricting Russia to a sphere of privileged interests in its immediate periphery and is refusing to accept the post-Cold War security order in Europe. Russian foreign policy has been building up to its present expansive stage for ouer two decades as a continuity of its history, geopolitical position and trends of the Soviet era which have withstood the test of time. The US and the West's refusal to accept Russia as a competitor in global affairs has turned into a systematic challenge to the primacy that the US and EU haue enjoyed since the end of the Cold War. Russia, despite the prevalent economic challenges will continue to position itself as an independent centre of power on the world stage towards the deuelopment of a multipolar world, possibly even in the post -Putin era. This paper focuses on Russian history, foreign policy, leadership and its perceived uneasy relations with the West in the aboue-mentioned perspective and was written before the Ukraine war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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