Realization of the us Foreign Policy Agenda in Post-Soviet Space in the Period of D. Trump's Presidency: Experience of Interaction with the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan
https://doi.org/10.21869/2223-1501-2021-11-5-178-190
Abstract
Relevance. Export of American political narratives and principles produces the design of certain meaningful components of the US foreign policy agenda and order of its realization with regard to the specificity of interaction with other political actors in the context of American political tradition. Within the framework of current processes and existing procedures of interstate interaction in Post-Soviet space the US political elite is formulating the arsenal of tools and techniques of realization of stated goals and tasks that means appeal to the next concepts.
Purpose. The main purpose of this article is to formulate scenarios of realization of the US foreign policy agenda in Post-Soviet space in the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the period of D. Trump's presidency.
Objectives: formulation of directions of interaction between the Unites States and the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the period of D. Trump's presidency, reveal of specific of D. Trump's presidency in the context of realization of the US foreign policy agenda in the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Methodology. The author mainly used the following group of methods in the process of writing this article: information analysis, content analysis and event analysis, multifactor analysis.
Results. The author identifies reasonability of formulation the key scenarios of realization of the US foreign policy agenda in Post-Soviet space from experience of interaction between the Unites States and the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the period of D. Trump's presidency with regard to the declared problematic.
Conclusion. The period of D. Trump's presidency is characterized by revision of some traditional concepts in terms of compliance with the central categories of American foreign political practice and correction of the US foreign policy agenda in Post-Soviet Space in the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the direction of intensification of cooperation on specific issues of financial and economic development.
About the Author
Ekaterina S. ShevchenkoRussian Federation
Post-Graduate Student of the Department of Political Science and Political Management
82 Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow 119571
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Shevchenko E.S. Realization of the us Foreign Policy Agenda in Post-Soviet Space in the Period of D. Trump's Presidency: Experience of Interaction with the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Proceedings of Southwest State University. Series: History and Law. 2021;11(5):178-190. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21869/2223-1501-2021-11-5-178-190