Putin Analysis On Germany's "economic Diplomacy"

After the cold war, Russia reinforces its promotion of"economic diplomacy". Facing the surge of globalization and crucial mission to revive Russian economy, Russia has emphasized its regional"economic diplomacy", especially the Russian-German"economic diplomacy", since 2000 when Putin commenced his tenure.The Russian-German"economic diplomacy"is forged under the influence of the unique historic tradition, geological location, economic development and international situation of the two countries. Firstly, both of them share considerable common interests in the aspect of economic security and are deeply interrelated. The enormous economic dependence of Russia propels Russia to strengthen its ties with German. Secondly, Russia accustoms itself to the changing international situation by consolidating the relations with German so as to widen the room for maneuver in strategy and enhance its ability to countervail the outside pressure. In the view of that, as the economic globalization and regional economic integration develop positively, Putin takes the Russian-German relation as one of the most important issues of diplomacy and insists on improving the"economic diplomacy"policies to German: make great efforts to advance the"economic diplomacy"to German on the ground of the unique geopolitics and security concerns of each country, which is propelled by mutual economic interests and mainly develops in a cooperative way; Make full use of the economic leverage to safeguard and strengthen its economic interests and ties with German, maintaining and consolidating the relations between Russia and German or even with EU.The distinctive features of Putin's"economic diplomacy"to German are that the political and security interests go in parallel with the economic interests with the energy cooperation as the concentrating point.Putin's"economic diplomacy"to German is initiated for the Russian national interests, and has made considerable accomplishment in actual: it has promoted Russian economic development, strengthened its position in Europe, elevated influence on European affairs and improved Russian security circumstances to some extent. However, there are also plenty of variables in this economic diplomacy: the drawback of Russian economic structure has inhibited the further development. In addition, the unpredictable strategic structure of the powers has exerted certain influence on the implementation dominated by favorable conditions and there is room for further development.