From Hegemony To Bismarkian Order and Offshore Balancing: U.S. Grand Strategy towards Russia after Cold War

Document Type : Research

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1 Department of Political Science ,Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student in Political Science, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Achieving regional and global order and security has always been one of the most important priorities and goals of the great powers. To achieve this, various approaches and strategies are being pursued by these powers in different parts of the world where the hegemonic approach is very thought-provoking. Hegemony is an order in which a great power alone plays a key role in the regions and tries to manage the security relations and communications of the regions through this. The hegemony in US politics and world order after the Cold War in the post-Soviet region has been very important and decisive. Using descriptive-analytical methods and library resources, this article, while conceptualizing the hegemonic order and its components, wants to address the question that how the United States did managed its relations in the post-Soviet region, especially with regard to Russia, after the Cold War through hegemony? Experimental and practical evidence suggests that, given Eurasia's importance to the hegemonic order of the United States, the United States pursue with three methods of nineteenth-century British balancing, Bismarkian policy (alliance, coalition, and economic, political, and military means), as well as a stabilization method based on the theory of hegemonic stability (American Pax Order), has faced security threats in the region. In this way, it has tried to manage its relations with countries in the post-Soviet region, especially with Russia and even China. Theoretical analysis of this hypothesis is based on Paul Papayano's theory in the book Security Order of Lake and Morgan and Hegemonic Stability Gilpin.

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International Political Economy Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2
March 2020
Pages 409-440

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  • Receive Date: 08 July 2020
  • Revise Date: 06 January 2021
  • Accept Date: 10 January 2021

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