Russia's new authoritarianism : : Putin and the politics of order /

Russia's new authoritarianism : : Putin and the politics of order / / David G. Lewis.

David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria - he critically examines Russia's new authoritarian polit...

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Lewis, David G.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • ONE / Authoritarianism, Ideology and Order
  • Understanding Russian Authoritarianism
  • Order, Smuta and the Russian State
  • Russia as Weimar
  • Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Order
  • TWO / Carl Schmitt and Russian Conservatism
  • Carl Schmitt in Moscow
  • Normalising Schmitt
  • THREE / Sovereignty and the Exception
  • The Centrality of Sovereignty
  • Sovereignty in International Affairs
  • Domestic Sovereignty: Deciding on the Exception
  • The Dual State
  • FOUR / Democracy and the People
  • Putinism and Democracy
  • The Decline of Parliamentarianism
  • Constructing a Majority
  • FIVE / Defining the Enemy
  • Russia and Its Enemies
  • The End of Consensus
  • SIX / Dualism, Exceptionality and the Rule of Law
  • Law in Russia
  • Conceptualising Dualism
  • Politicised Justice
  • Mechanisms of Exception
  • The Exception Becomes the Norm
  • SEVEN / The Crimean Exception
  • Crimea: The Sovereign Decision
  • Legality as Imperialism
  • Order and Orientation
  • EIGHT / Großraum Thinking in Russian Foreign Policy
  • A World of Great Spaces
  • Russia's Spatial Crisis
  • The New Schmittians
  • NINE / Apocalypse Delayed: Katechontic Thinking in Late Putinist Russia
  • Russian Messianism
  • Russia as Contemporary Katechon
  • Katechontic Thinking and the Syrian Intervention
  • CONCLUSION
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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