Medvedev's Security Policy

A Provisional Assessment

Author(s): Marcel de Haas
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 62
Pages: 2-5
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2009

President Dmitry Medvedev has been in office for more than a year, making this a suitable moment to offer a provisional assessment of his external security policy by analyzing his major security documents and statements. In July 2008, several months after his inauguration as president, Medvedev launched his first major security document, the Foreign Policy Concept. Shortly after the Russian-Georgian conflict of August 2008, Medvedev introduced a second security policy initiative, this time in the form of a statement on major policy principles. The next month, in September 2008, Putin's successor approved a specific strategy for the Arctic region. And in May 2009 President Medvedev ratified Russia's first National Security Strategy. Russia's military doctrine, the third pillar of the troika of the country's security policy hierarchy after the strategy and the foreign policy concept is expected to appear in a new edition during the course of 2009.

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