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Not by bread alone : Russian foreign policy under Putin
\"A look at Russia's foreign policy under Vladimir Putin, analyzing Russia's foreign policy priorities and actions and examining the country's identity construction as a way to understand its political culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Not by Bread Alone
Since its independence in 1991, Russia has struggled with the growing pains of defining its role in international politics. After Vladimir Putin ascended to power in 2000, the country undertook grandiose foreign policy projects in an attempt to delineate its place among the world's superpowers. With this in mind, Robert Nalbandov examines the milestones of Russia's international relations since the turn of the twenty-first century. He focuses on the specific goals, engagement practices, and tools used by Putin's administration to promote Russia's vital national and strategic interests in specific geographic locations. His findings illuminate Putin's foreign policy objective of reinstituting Russian global strategic dominance. Nalbandov argues that identity-based politics have dominated Putin's tenure and that Russia's east/west split is reflected in Asian-European politics.
Nalbandov's analysis shows that unchecked domestic power, an almost exclusive application of hard power, and determined ambition for unabridged global influence and a defined place as a world superpower are the keys to Putin's Russia.
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Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
Lourie posits that \"Putin's Russia will collapse just as Imperial Russia did in 1917 and as Soviet Russia did in 1991. The only questions are when, how violently, and with how much peril for the world. The U.S. election complicates everything, including Putin's next land grab, exploitations of the Arctic, cyber-espionage, Putin and China ... and many more ... topics\"--Provided by publisher.
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Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin
Since Russia has re-emerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia's international relations are determined. He argues that Russia's interests in acquiring power, security and welfare are filtered through this cultural belief and that different conceptions of honor provide an organizing framework that produces policies of cooperation, defensiveness and assertiveness in relation to the West. Using ten case studies spanning a period from the early nineteenth century to the present day - including the Holy Alliance, the Triple Entente and the Russia-Georgia war - Tsygankov's theory suggests that when it perceives its sense of honor to be recognized, Russia cooperates with the Western nations; without such a recognition it pursues independent policies either defensively or assertively.
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Black wind, white snow : the rise of Russia's new nationalism
\"In this important, thought-provoking work, journalist Charles Clover, former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, attempts to shed light on the sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Clover suggests that a nearly century-old ideology known as Eurasianism has taken hold in the region following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with Putin a strong proponent. Originally formulated as a counter to Communism, Eurasianism posits a Russian national identity based not on politics but on geography and ethnicity, and it portends a stark and troubling future reality for Eastern Europe. Clover's eye-opening study explores the roots of Eurasianism, its growth, and its relationship to recent events, including the annexation of Crimea and the dramatic rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist sentiments. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with Putin's close advisors, as well as with politicians and academics in Russia and Ukraine, this timely study is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the political and social trajectories of Russia and the countries of the former USSR in the coming years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Russian style : performing gender, power, and Putinism
As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender between 2000 and 2020, Vladimir Putin's Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a neoconservative agenda characterized by increasingly exaggerated gender roles. By connecting gendered and sexualized citizenship to developments in Russian popular culture, Julie A. Cassiday argues that heteronormativity and homophobia became a kind of politicized style under Putin's leadership. However, the multiple modes of gender performativity simultaneously helped citizens resist and protest the state's mandate of heteronormativity. Examining everything from memes to the Eurovision Song Contest and self-help literature, Cassiday untangles the discourse of gender to argue that drag, or travesti, became the performative trope par excellence in Putin's Russia. Provocatively, Cassiday further argues that the exaggerated expressions of gender demanded by Putin's regime are best understood as a form of cisgender drag. This smart and lively study provides critical, nuanced analysis of the relationship between popular culture and politics in Russia during Putin's first two decades in power.
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Fluid Russia
Fluid Russia offers a new
framework for understanding Russian national identity by focusing
on the impact of globalization on its formation, something which
has been largely overlooked. This approach sheds new light
on the Russian case, revealing a dynamic Russian identity that is
developing along the lines of other countries exposed to
globalization. Vera Michlin-Shapir shows how along with the
freedoms afforded when Russia joined the globalizing world in the
1990s came globalization's disruptions.
Michlin-Shapir describes Putin's rise to power and his project
to reaffirm a stronger identity not as a uniquely Russian diversion
from liberal democracy, but as part of a broader phenomenon of
challenges to globalization. She underlines the limits of Putin's
regime to shape Russian politics and society, which is still very
much impacted by global trends. As well, Michlin-Shapir questions a
prevalent approach in Russia studies that views Russia's experience
with national identity as abnormal or defective, either being too
week or too aggressive.
What is offered is a novel explanation for the so-called Russian
identity crisis. As the liberal postwar order faces growing
challenges, Russia's experience can be an instructive example of
how these processes unfold. This study ties Russia's authoritarian
politics and nationalist rallying to the shortcomings of
globalization and neoliberal economics, potentially making Russia
\"patient zero\" of the anti-globalist populist wave and rise of
neo-authoritarian regimes. In this way, Fluid Russia
contributes to the broader understanding of national identity in
the current age and the complexities of identity formation in the
global world.
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Rusland, onveranderlijk anders?
Download het hoofdstuk ‘De nieuwe Russische triade: staat, traditie, volk’. In dit hoofdstuk verkent Lien Verpoest het nieuwe Russische beschavingsnationalisme aan de hand van concepten van contestatie en soevereiniteit. Een hernieuwde Russische triade dient zich aan: staat,volk en traditie.
Herbekijk de Afspraak van maandag 9 december 2019 met Professor Lien Verpoest over 'Rusland, onveranderlijk anders?' >
Een hedendaagse blik op Rusland
Rond de eeuwwisseling liet Rusland de moeizame politieke en economische transitiejaren van de post-Sovjetperiode achter zich en veranderde het land in snel tempo. Patriottisme, respect voor tradities en het roemrijke verleden werden de voorbije jaren steeds prominenter vermeld als ‘waarden’ die de sterke Russische staat consolideren. Meer dan ooit wordt vandaag het belang van eigen verleden benadrukt, en meer dan ooit zet Rusland zich af tegen het normerende Westen. Continuïteit en contestatie. Is Rusland onveranderlijk anders?
Dit is géén Poetinboek. Rusland wordt bestudeerd aan de hand van de kernbegrippen contestatie, traditionalisme en etatisme die cruciaal zijn om de geschiedenis, cultuur, en buitenlandse politiek van het land beter te kunnen begrijpen. Naast een cultuurhistorisch deel bevat het boek ook een luik met politiek-maatschappelijke bijdragen. Vanuit een interdisciplinair perspectief geven de auteurs hun visie op Rusland als land dat contesteert en gecontesteerd wordt, dat zo anders is door die mysterieuze Russische ‘Sonderweg’ maar zich tegelijk ook vaak conformeert.
Rusland, onveranderlijk anders? is aanbevolen lectuur voor wie zich verder wil verdiepen in de Russische politiek, cultuur en geschiedenis.
Bijdragende auteurs: Marc Jansen (Universiteit Amsterdam), Francis Maes (UGent), Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven), Tony van der Togt (Clingendael Instituut Den Haag), Eva Claessen (KU Leuven), Laura Vansina (KU Leuven).
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Work Flows
Work Flows investigates the
emergence of \"flow\" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor
culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with
fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures-whether
that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet
Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of
corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West.
Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the Russian
rhetoric of liquids and flow reached an apotheosis during Stalin's
First Five-Year Plan and re-emerged in post-Soviet \"managed
democracy\" and Western neoliberalism.
The literary, philosophical, and official texts that Work
Flows examines give voice to the Stalinist ambition of
reforging not merely individual bodies, but space and time
themselves. By mobilizing the understudied thematic of fluidity,
Vinokour offers insight into the nexus of philosophy, literature,
and science that underpinned Stalinism and remains influential
today. Work Flows demonstrates that Stalinism is not a historical
phenomenon restricted to the period 1922-1953, but a symptom of
modernity as it emerged in the twentieth century. Stalinism's
legacy extends far beyond the bounds of the former Soviet Union,
emerging in seemingly disparate settings like post-Soviet Russia
and Silicon Valley.
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Cinemasaurus
Cinemasaurus examines ninety recent films over three decades, focusing on four issues ofRussia's transition: (1) its imperial legacy, (2) the film market and newgenres, (3) the dialogue with European values and hierarchies, (4) itsrenegotiation with state power. Itscontributors include the next generation of US-Russian cinema scholars.
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