Vladimir Putin’s Leadership Trait Analysis in Russia’s Responses towards China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative

Bara Bhiswara

2018

Abstract

The One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative initiated by Xi Jinping in 2013 is not only interesting because of its great vision, but also because of the international responses towards it. Russia, as a country that has traces of fluctuating relations with China and then shows a positive response on the initiative. Russia’s response then mainly associated with the interests of Russia in the 20th century to reappear as a great country. The Chinese idea was answered with an ambitious notion: the integration of the OBOR framework with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) framework. The characteristic of the case makes the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, the focus of the individual who is important to be analyzed in both the cognitive and psychological aspects, in which Putin is the central actor of the formulation of Russia’s foreign policy. The data sources from this research are Putin's prepared statements from press, conferences, and international events, and Putin’s spontaneous comments in interviews with Putin on television, press, to direct lines. Through Leadership Traits Analysis method, this article analyzes Putin’s leadership characteristics through seven main components: individual beliefs in controlling the situation, the need for power and influence, conceptual complexity, self-confidence, task orientation versus interpersonal, suspicion or individual distrust of the other party's motives, and the bias level in the group. From the research that has been done, found that in this case, Putin classified as a reactive leader, where he focuses on assessing the possibilities of what is in a situation and what factors can make that possibility possible, and accommodative leader, where he focuses on reconciling differences and consensus building, empowering others, and sharing accountability in the process.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bhiswara B. (2018). Vladimir Putin’s Leadership Trait Analysis in Russia’s Responses towards China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 143-150. DOI: 10.5220/0010274400002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Bara Bhiswara},
title={Vladimir Putin’s Leadership Trait Analysis in Russia’s Responses towards China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={143-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010274400002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Vladimir Putin’s Leadership Trait Analysis in Russia’s Responses towards China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Bhiswara B.
PY - 2018
SP - 143
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0010274400002309