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Russian Foreign Policy: A Quest for Great Power Status in a Multipolar World 111 been important to Russia as trade partners and as links in the Russian energy infrastructure containing elements of the network of pipelines located on the territory of those states.Consistent with liberalism (also discussed in the introductory chapter), states' foreign policies are driven by economic interests in furthering their economic wealth.

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been important to Russia as trade partners and as links in the Russian energy infrastructure containing elements of the network of pipelines located on the territory of those states.
Consistent with liberalism (also discussed in the introductory chapter), states' foreign policies are driven by economic interests in furthering their economic wealth. Russia has championed various economic projects on the post-Soviet territory because cooperation with the former republics of the Soviet Union has been beneficial to the Russian state. Close economic ties of the successor states; common infrastructure, overlapping populations; the similarities of cultures, language, political institutions, and developmental practices; as well as shared economic, polison pacial problem, called for sustained mutilateral coperation on ti