Le moment Kozyrev : retour sur les fondements de la politique étrangère post-soviétique

Abstract

Kozyrev's Moment Return to the Foundations of Post­Soviet Foreign Policy. This article aims at providing a renewed vision of the Post­Soviet diplomacy’s first steps, led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Andrei Kozyrev. Indeed, his policy seems to be remembered as the one of western temptation and of an ultraliberal and unilateral trend. More than that, the man who embodies it somehow remains, if not forgotten , at least depreciated . Nevertheless, this “ Kozyrev moment ” is more nuanced . Kozyrev’s policy will then be analyzed under the prism of its coherence, but also of its breaks, in order to grasp Post­Soviet foreign policy’s complexity. Whereas we could understand this diplomacy until the end of 1992 as a “ seeking power policy ”, from 1993 on it is characterized by the assertion of a “ power policy ” : a play between integration and rejection, integration and particularism. What is at stake here is thus to put into perspective these new logics as invariants of Russian Federation’s international policy, which seems to last, in a way, till nowadays.