Eurasian Integration and the Russian World : : Regionalism as an Identitiary Enterprise / / Aliaksei Kazharski.

• VerfasserIn: Kazharski, Aliaksei,
• MitwirkendeR: Morozov, Viatcheslav,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 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 -- Index