Foreign policies of Putin's regime

The research puzzle I are going to address in this chapter consists in the academically underproblematized interplay of politicization and depoliticization as two different yet equally important international strategies of Russia’s officialdom. My assumption is that the quality of policy making depends on the state’s ability to properly combine these two strategies in practising diplomacy. I shall focus on the interplay of these strategies in the sphere of Russian foreign policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin (2000–8, 2012–present) and Dmitriy Medvedev (2008–12).