Exploring Russia's Exceptionalism in International Politics

Raymond Taras

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781003832423
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Thema: Russische Politik

This book explores Russia's sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia's conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia's special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these concepts in relation to Russia's history and its present behaviour, and also in relation to other countries' views of themselves as exceptional, the book highlights Russia's sense of its own identity as a key factor shaping current international events.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• 1 Rethinking how historically exceptional Russia has been
• 2 Beyond the core: Conceptualising Russia’s Hybrid Exceptionalism in times of war
• 3 Mission narrative in Russian foreign policy: The Comparative Perspective
• 4 Squaring the circle: Legitimizing the Putin regime after February 24, 2022
• 5 Exception and analogical reasoning in Ukrainian and Russian political discourses
• 6 Messianic discourses and the ideology of Putinism
• 7 Human Rights and the Exceptionalism of Russian Law and Politics
• 8 The emergence of contending universalisms: Russian and American exceptionalist diplomacy, 1917–1918
• 9 Russia’s exceptional role in managing Kazakhstan’s postcolonial identity
• 10 The Soviet federative state: Its exceptional formation and dismemberment
• Bibliography
• Index