Study on the impact of strategic culture on foreign policy of Russian Federation

Following the formation of the fourth debate in international relations theories,” culture” has reached to an equal position to material factors in forming countries’ behavior. Upon the mentioned theories, culture and strategic culture were raised as identity foundations of each actor in international relations, which has the capacity of influencing on elites and policymakers as well as the society which shapes the foreign policy of a country and its international behavior. Therefore recognizing those elements that shape the cultural foundation of a country, especially the strategic culture of countries is very effective in understanding the reason of different countries’ actions especially the Russian Federation in foreign policy area. The present article addresses this question that what has been the impact of strategic culture on foreign policy of Russian Federation? The hypothesis of this article is that Russia’s strategic culture that is composed of some factors such as fear of threat, geopolitical features, expansionism vision, great power vision, etc. had a deep impact on strategic decision making structure and behavior of this actor in foreign policy area and Interantional environment. This article is written using explanatory – analytical research method.