Sergiy Fedunyak

The article is focusing on the interplay between foreign policy agenda of the post-Soviet states at the one hand and internal policy developments in these countries at the other hand. One of the main explanations why the post-Soviet elites in non-Russian republics are pursuing the so-called multi-vectorialism in the foreign policy is that it serves as a strategy to maximize the most from having good relations both with East and West, and thus trying to perpetuate the monopoly of the power. Uzbekistan is a country in case, as Ukraine (and Moldova) is (or was) indeed also. At the same time, the special relations between the elites of post-Soviet countries and Moscow are very important in shaping the foreign policy agenda of these countries as a result of the Soviet legacy, i.e. the ties of the former Communist nomenklatura with Moscow are still playing a very important role in the most of the former Soviet republics. Another relevant variable in explaining the current state of affairs...

Canada has accumulated substantial potential and interesting experience in security sphere. Тhe article deals with the general conceptual approaches of Canadian elite toward security after the cold war well as real policy directions in this issue. First of all, it is necessary to say that the end of the cold war caused reconsideration of conceptual approaches to security as well as development of new power centers based not only on military force but also on so called “soft power”. In this context Canada is an indicative example: being a member of western privilege club, this country simultaneously possesses high authority in the Third World. As a result, the situation gives Ottawa a possibility to play a role of “middle power” which includes a mission of a certain mediator between post-industrial and developing countries. The end of the cold war created possibility to overcome certain ambivalence of Canadian foreign and security policy. New security concept stated in the document o...