Factors Affecting Russia's Foreign Decision Making

Various factors affecting decision making process has made a generalized foreign policy behavior impossible for some countries as each actor has a response entirely different to same approach and this is primary due to different combinations of internal and external factors that can be helpful in pattern making of foreign policy variables. Many have discussed the affecting factors on foreign decision making, but James Rosenau have spoken out the "pre-theory" model to examine these variables in four important levels of dignity, territorial, human and inhuman. This article is to survey the role of these factors in Russia's today foreign policy making process. Using a foreign policy pre-theory, does not necessarily lead to determination nor to impenetrability, but provide us helpful bases for adjusting and examining foreign policy of different countries in a variety of conditions and the Russian Federation is no exception. Analyzing foreign policy decision making in the Russian Federation based on Rosenau's pre-theory model, the article is to utilize from both micro and macro levels to clarify not only the internal structures that involved in specific decisions but the international system variable affecting this process.