Strategic partnership between Germany and Russia, 1994–2000
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2025-2-41-52
Abstract
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of the strategic partnership between Germany and Russia from 1994, when an agreement on partnership and co-operation was concluded, up to 2000, when Vladimir Putin came to power in the Russian Federation. The author, using the historical-genetic method, attempts to highlight the evolution of the partnership in the context of the interrelationship of the strategic partnership, as a European phenomenon, and the part of the German national policy. Based on a variety of sources, the paper compares specific approaches to defining the genesis of the phenomenon, its qualitative content and evolution. The differences in approaches are illustrated on the example of various publications and legal frameworks. On the basis of the collected material, the author reconstructs the expectations Germany and the Russian Federation sought to get from the strategic partnership and identifies the obstacles to its full realization. The causal links underlying this format of relations are separately highlighted. For the sake of clarity, they are listed chronologically. Such a presentation made it possible to recreate the dynamics of the partnership development and to provide more information on the expectations of the parties. The author concludes that there were two levels of the strategic partnership: the institutional one (the link: Germany – the EU – Russia) and the interstate partnership (the link: Germany – Russia), where the trend was exactly the transition to the institutional level.
About the Author
G. A. Khoroshevskii
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Georgii A. Khoroshevskii, postgraduate student
6-6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Khoroshevskii G.A. Strategic partnership between Germany and Russia, 1994–2000. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2025;(2):41-52. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2025-2-41-52
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