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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">24623</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-3-491-503</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Russian Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy: Meeting 21st Century Challenges</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Внешняя политика России и публичная дипломатия: вызовы XXI века</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Simons</surname><given-names>Greg</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Симонс</surname><given-names>Грэг</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor, Researcher, the Humanitarian Institute at Ural Federal University in Russia; Researcher, the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Uppsala University; Lecturer, the Department of Communication Science, Leading Researcher, the Business Technology Institute, Turiba University</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент, научный сотрудник Уральского гуманитарного института Уральского федерального университета им. первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина в Екатеринбурге; научный сотрудник Института российских и евразийских исследований Университета Упсалы; доцент кафедры коммуникационных наук, ведущий научный сотрудник Института бизнес-технологий Университета Туриба</p></bio><email>gregmons@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Uppsala University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Упсалы</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Turiba University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Туриба</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff3"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ural Federal University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Уральский федеральный университет им. первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>20</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Russia’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Views from Inside and Outside</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Внешняя политика России в XXI веке в оценках российских и зарубежных экспертов</issue-title><fpage>491</fpage><lpage>503</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-09-20"><day>20</day><month>09</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Simons G.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Симонс Г.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Simons G.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Симонс Г.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/24623">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/24623</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Foreign policy is about setting the policy aims and goals of a given country in the competitive environment of international affairs. When analyzing it, one should pay attention to many factors, namely, economic and energy potential, military-technical means, the presence of trade and economic partners, political weight and state image in the international arena, state membership in various international organizations. You can also highlight a number of tools that also play a large role in the foreign policy of states. As a specific instrument of foreign policy, public diplomacy concerns the regulation and management of international relations with various global publics in order to realise those foreign policy aims and goals. Specifically, public diplomacy intends to create a positive reputation and brand of the country, simultaneously increasing the country’s soft power potential, which is based on external and internal sources. This article intends to track and analyse the challenges and the role played by Russian public diplomacy in terms of meeting the challenges of the country’s foreign policy agenda in the 21st century. These challenges have been in a state of transformation as the nature of the environment of international relations changed. As a result, Russian public diplomacy has needed to evolve along with the changes at the global level and consequently the shifting demands enshrined in the foreign policy concepts. There are several identified distinct political policy periods noted: attempts to integrate into the Western-led global order; cooling relations with the United States dominated global order; and preparing for multi-polar and a post-Western global order.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Внешняя политика представляет собой установление политических целей и задач данной страны в конкурентной среде международных отношений. При ее анализе следует обращать внимание на множество факторов, а именно на экономический и энергетический потенциал, военно-технические средства, наличие торгово-экономических партнеров, политический вес и государственный имидж на международной арене, членство государства в различных международных организациях. Также можно выделить и ряд инструментов, которые также играют большую роль во внешнеполитической деятельности государств. Как конкретный инструмент внешней политики публичная дипломатия касается регулирования и управления международными отношениями с различными мировыми акторами с целью реализации этих целей и задач внешней политики. В частности, публичная дипломатия призвана создать положительную репутацию и бренд страны, одновременно увеличивая потенциал страны в области «мягкой силы», который основывается на внешних и внутренних источниках. Статья призвана отследить и проанализировать проблемы и роль, которую играет российская публичная дипломатия в плане решения задач внешней политики страны в XXI в. Эти проблемы находились в состоянии трансформации по мере изменения характера среды международных отношений. В результате российская публичная дипломатия должна развиваться вместе с изменениями на глобальном уровне и, следовательно, меняющимися требованиями, закрепленными в концепциях внешней политики. Отмечено ее развитие на нескольких этапах: попытке интегрироваться в западный мир, охлаждение отношений с США, доминирующими на мировой арене, и подготовка к многополярному и постзападному глобальному порядку.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Russia</kwd><kwd>foreign policy</kwd><kwd>public diplomacy</kwd><kwd>international relations</kwd><kwd>global order</kwd><kwd>multi-polarity</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Россия</kwd><kwd>внешняя политика</kwd><kwd>публичная дипломатия</kwd><kwd>международные отношения</kwd><kwd>мировой порядок</kwd><kwd>многополярность</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Статья подготовлена в рамках исследовательского гранта Российского научного фонда, проект № 19-18-00264.</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">The reported study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 19-18-00264</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aggarwal, V.K. &amp; Govella, K. 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