CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Morozova, Natalia Nikolayevna |
|---|---|
| Title | The Politics of Russian Post-Soviet Identity: Geopolitics,Eurasianism, and Beyond |
| Summary | This dissertation analyzes the Russian post-Soviet foreign policy debate from the point of view of the emergence of two interrelated and mutually reinforcing discourses – discourse on ‘geopolitics’ and discourse on ‘Eurasianism’. Instead of equating ‘geopolitics’ with the post-1993 emphasis on great power competition for territorial control and dismissing ‘Eurasianism’ as strategically employed myth-making the way most of the existing literature does, this dissertation views the ‘geopoli tics’/&# x2019;Eurasiani sm’ constellation through the prism of the link between Russia’s post-Soviet foreign policy and its evolving political identity. The discussion is placed within the poststructuralist theoretical framework that stresses identity-constitutive effects of foreign policy discourses and, more broadly, attempts to problematize the sedimentation of the social with the help of the political. In particular, different versions of the ‘geopoli tics’/&# x2019;Eurasiani sm’ constellation are analyzed from the point of view of how well they address the problem of European hegemony in the Russian political discourse and conceptualize post-Soviet Russia’s political subjectivity. The study thus draws a comparison between two discourses on ‘geopoli tics’/&# x2019;Eurasiani sm’ – the ‘pragmatic’ nationalist discourse advocated by Russian foreign-policy makers, and ‘civilizational’ geopolitical discourse critical of the official coupling of ‘geopolitics’ and ‘Eurasianism’. Thus, the research question and, at the same time, the puzzle that informs the dissertation is why – why did post-Soviet Russia witness a rise of ‘civilizational’ geopolitics that proceeded by way of revisiting both classical geopolitics and classical Eurasianism? |
| Supervisor | Astrov, Alexander |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/iphmon01.pdf |
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