Kazharski Eurasian Integration and the Russian World

Regionalism as an Identitiary Enterprise
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-963-386-286-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
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This volume examines Russian discourses of regionalism as a source of identity construction practices for the country's political and intellectual establishment. The overall purpose of the monograph is to demonstrate that, contrary to some assumptions, the transition trajectory of post-Soviet Russia has not been towards a liberal democratic nation state that is set to emulate Western political and normative standards. Instead, its foreign policy discourses have been constructing Russia as a supranational community which transcends Russia's current legally established borders.

The study undertakes a systematic and comprehensive survey of Russian official (authorities) and semi-official (establishment affiliated think tanks) discourse for a period of seven years between 2007 and 2013. This exercise demonstrates how Russia is being constructed as a supranational entity through its discourses of cultural and economic regionalism. These discourses associate closely with the political project of Eurasian economic integration and the "Russian world" and "Russian civilization" doctrines. Both ideologies, the geoeconomic and culturalist, have gained prominence in the post-Crimean environment. The analysis tracks down how these identitary concepts crystallized in Russia's foreign policies discourses beginning from Vladimir Putin's second term in power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kazharski, Aliaksei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledment
Foreword by Viatcheslav Morozov
Introduction

Chapter 1. Regionalism as a Russian Identity-Building Project
Chapter 2. The Post-Soviet as Postmodern? Theorizing Identitary Discourses in Russia
Chapter 3. The Language of Civilizations in Post-Soviet Russia
Chapter 4. A "Russian Civilization": Constructing Unity across Fragmentation
Chapter 5. Cultural Regionalism as a Non-Western Model of Global Order
Chapter 6. Toward a "Eurasian Union"? Economic Regionalism and Reconstitution of Russian Identity
Chapter 7. Eurasian Regionalism and the European Union: New Uses for the Old Other

Conclusion
References

Über Autor(innen)

Kazharski, Aliaksei
Aliaksei Kazharski received his Ph.D. from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. He has worked at Charles University in Prague and has been a guest researcher at the universities of Oslo, Tartu, Vienna, Malmö, and Uppsala, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), and the Polish Academy of Sciences. He published two monographs: Eurasian Integration and the Russian World. Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise (CEUPress 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. A Return to the Margin? 2022, winner of the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award).