Viacheslav Morozov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viacheslav Morozov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viacheslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Morozov |
| SIGNATURE | MOROZOV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9643-5380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
F*** tha police!” à la Russe: Rancière and the Metamodernist Turn in Contemporary Russian Music
The nationwide prominence of Russian oppositional artists has inspired a fair number of studies analyzing the political aspects of their creative output. We argue that the new generation of Russian musicians, whose art became popular in the end of 2010s, brings political engagement to a qualitatively new level. Following Jacques Rancière, we reject the assumption that critical art can bring about political mobilization by exposing social evils. I…
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum
This forum reconsiders the standing of ‘the international’ in relation to ‘critique’. Is this relation best understood in ways reminiscent of the ‘Fourth Great Debate’, where the international, associated with political realism, was targeted for deconstruction by critical approaches drawn from outside International Relations? Or is the international, on the contrary, itself a source of potential critique needing to be excavated and utilized, as r…
Russia and the liberal order: From Contestation to Antagonism
Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine is rightfully viewed as a major violation of the fundamental norms of international society. It creates a problem for the literature on the liberal international order, which used to treat Russia as engaging in contestation-a legitimate practice which, according to some accounts, constitutes an essential aspect of any order. This article aims to develop a conceptual frame for the radical rupture resulting …
Class, Culture, and the Problem of Leadership
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova's book focuses, as a central problem, on the relationship between the political leadership and the people in Russia. It seeks to explain Putinism as a particular type of political regime, or, to be more precise, of regime legitimacy. By mapping out the existing literature and matching it with the results of her field research, she builds up a convincing explanation of Vladimir Putin's popularity as hinging on the emotional b…
Uneven worlds of hegemony: Towards a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity
The neo-Marxist literature on uneven and combined development has made significant progress towards a comprehensive theory of the international. Its point of departure is societal multiplicity as a fundamental condition of the international. This article identifies an important lacuna in the ontology of multiplicity: there is no discussion of what constitutes a 'society', or the basic entity capable of entering a relationship with other entities.…
Post-Soviet subalternity and the dialectic of race: Reflections on Tamar Koplatadze's article
In her timely and important contribution (‘Theorising Russian Postcolonial Studies’, Postcolonial Studies 22(4), 2019), Tamar Koplatadze identifies a number of blind spots of postcolonial scholarship focused on the post-Soviet space. This comment explores some of the implications of Koplatadze’s critique of such concepts as subaltern empire and internal colonisation to highlight the importance of applying the master–slave opposition in a dialecti…
New Nationalisms and Identity Politics: Minorities, Majorities and Universal Emancipation
A defining feature of new nationalisms, with their right-wing populist rhetoric, is the way they exploit the regime of truth prevalent in liberal democratic societies. Their use of the language of democracy, human rights and identity is sometimes hard to differentiate from the mainstream convention. Despite being majoritarian in the way it seeks democratic legitimacy, new nationalist discourse consistently advances demands framed in terms of mino…
Popular Culture and Authoritarianism in Russia: A Study of Common Sense Through the Prism of Women’s Fiction
The high level of support enjoyed by the authoritarian regime in Russia has been interpreted as evidence of the reactionary character of Russian mass consciousness. We question this view by adopting a neo-Gramscian perspective on popular culture and common sense. We view common sense as protean, combining incongruous beliefs and ideological elements. Our study of Russian women’s fiction finds that contrary to the canons of the genre, Russian auth…
Identity beyond othering: Crisis and the politics of decision in the EU’s involvement in Libya
This article focusses on the concept of decision and its significance for identity politics. Constructivist scholarship established long ago that identity and foreign policy are mutually constitutive and that difference and othering are key for the production of identities. As a consequence, constructivist literature on EU foreign policy has focussed on the role of specific others and explored how interaction with them shapes the EU’s identity. O…
Indigeneity and subaltern subjectivity in decolonial discourses: A comparative study of Bolivia and Russia
Russia's Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World
Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic of the subaltern
Is “Non-Western Theory” Possible? The Idea of Multipolarity and the Trap of Epistemological Relativism in Russian IR
An important recent development in the discipline of International Relations (IR) has been the growing interest in the national schools and “non-core” theorizing. Even though this interest is fully justified, we argue that the tendency to describe all such schools as invariably promising and helpful in overcoming the Eurocentrism of the discipline is misguided. It originates in the false assumption that the infinite diversity of collective experi…
Subaltern Empire: Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Russian Foreign Policy
Russia can be considered both an empire and a subaltern, a duality reflected in Russian foreign policy, especially its promotion of multipolarity. Voices that claim to speak for the subaltern cannot always be trusted, since they often silence and oppress rather than emancipate and empower others
The external constitution of European identity: Russia and Turkey as Europe-makers
The view of identities as always situated in a relationship with the Other underlies contemporary constructivist social theory. Taking a step further, and combining constructivist approaches to identity with insights from post-colonial studies, this article argues that the Other, far from being a mere presence, often plays an active role in identity politics. By tracing the historically varying ways in which Turkey and Russia have engaged in Euro…
Multilateralism, Multipolarity, and Beyond: A Menu of Russia’s Policy Strategies
The article examines the main approaches to multilateralism that coexist nn Russian foreign policy thinking. It argues that these approaches must be put in the context of the debate on multipolarity, which comes out as a direct opposition to the Western “collective unilateralism.” Both as an abstract model and as a concrete practice, multipolarity is not synonymous with multilateralism; certain visions of a multipolar world, such as great-power m…
Obsessed with identity: The IR in post-Soviet Russia
Sovereignty and democracy in contemporary Russia: A modern subject faces the post-modern world
Russia in the Baltic Sea Region: Desecuritization or Deregionalization
Relations between Russia and the Baltic States — the weakest link in the Baltic Rim — have significantly improved since 2000. One of the explanations for this improvement is the fact that in contemporary Russian political discourse national identity is desecuritized. The role of the Baltic states has radically changed: they are no longer considered as an embodiment of the ‘false’, anti-Russian Europe. However, despite the desecuritization of nati…
The politics of remembering: Saint Petersburg's 300th anniversary
With Leningrad abandoned, what are the stories told about St. Petersburg, the town named after Apostle Peter? In particular, how was the city's Tercentenary jubilee staged? Discarding images related to Lenin and the Soviet era could signal liberation. Tapping into alternative mnemonic resources could allow the city to free itself from a variety of constraints by utilizing the imperial heritage and the various linkages to Europeanness embedded the…
Resisting Entropy, Discarding Human Rights: Romantic Realism and Securitization of Identity in Russia
The ways in which the notion of human rights is interpreted in Russian foreign policy discourse are investigated. It is shown that the discourse is dominated by romantic realism — a methodological position which it is claimed reveals the `real' motives for political action but that develops an explicitly idealistic framework for analysis. Romantic realism regards human rights as an instrument used by the West to hinder the internal consolidation …
The external constitution of European identity: Russia and Turkey as Europe-makers
The view of identities as always situated in a relationship with the Other underlies contemporary constructivist social theory. Taking a step further, and combining constructivist approaches to identity with insights from post-colonial studies, this article argues that the Other, far from being a mere presence, often plays an active role in identity politics. By tracing the historically varying ways in which Turkey and Russia have engaged in Euro…
Russia in the Baltic Sea Region: Desecuritization or Deregionalization
Relations between Russia and the Baltic States — the weakest link in the Baltic Rim — have significantly improved since 2000. One of the explanations for this improvement is the fact that in contemporary Russian political discourse national identity is desecuritized. The role of the Baltic states has radically changed: they are no longer considered as an embodiment of the ‘false’, anti-Russian Europe. However, despite the desecuritization of nati…
Subaltern Empire: Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Russian Foreign Policy
Russia can be considered both an empire and a subaltern, a duality reflected in Russian foreign policy, especially its promotion of multipolarity. Voices that claim to speak for the subaltern cannot always be trusted, since they often silence and oppress rather than emancipate and empower others
Resisting Entropy, Discarding Human Rights: Romantic Realism and Securitization of Identity in Russia
The ways in which the notion of human rights is interpreted in Russian foreign policy discourse are investigated. It is shown that the discourse is dominated by romantic realism — a methodological position which it is claimed reveals the `real' motives for political action but that develops an explicitly idealistic framework for analysis. Romantic realism regards human rights as an instrument used by the West to hinder the internal consolidation …
Sovereignty and democracy in contemporary Russia: A modern subject faces the post-modern world
Multilateralism, Multipolarity, and Beyond: A Menu of Russia’s Policy Strategies
The article examines the main approaches to multilateralism that coexist nn Russian foreign policy thinking. It argues that these approaches must be put in the context of the debate on multipolarity, which comes out as a direct opposition to the Western “collective unilateralism.” Both as an abstract model and as a concrete practice, multipolarity is not synonymous with multilateralism; certain visions of a multipolar world, such as great-power m…
Uneven worlds of hegemony: Towards a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity
The neo-Marxist literature on uneven and combined development has made significant progress towards a comprehensive theory of the international. Its point of departure is societal multiplicity as a fundamental condition of the international. This article identifies an important lacuna in the ontology of multiplicity: there is no discussion of what constitutes a 'society', or the basic entity capable of entering a relationship with other entities.…
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum
This forum reconsiders the standing of ‘the international’ in relation to ‘critique’. Is this relation best understood in ways reminiscent of the ‘Fourth Great Debate’, where the international, associated with political realism, was targeted for deconstruction by critical approaches drawn from outside International Relations? Or is the international, on the contrary, itself a source of potential critique needing to be excavated and utilized, as r…
New Nationalisms and Identity Politics: Minorities, Majorities and Universal Emancipation
A defining feature of new nationalisms, with their right-wing populist rhetoric, is the way they exploit the regime of truth prevalent in liberal democratic societies. Their use of the language of democracy, human rights and identity is sometimes hard to differentiate from the mainstream convention. Despite being majoritarian in the way it seeks democratic legitimacy, new nationalist discourse consistently advances demands framed in terms of mino…
Popular Culture and Authoritarianism in Russia: A Study of Common Sense Through the Prism of Women’s Fiction
The high level of support enjoyed by the authoritarian regime in Russia has been interpreted as evidence of the reactionary character of Russian mass consciousness. We question this view by adopting a neo-Gramscian perspective on popular culture and common sense. We view common sense as protean, combining incongruous beliefs and ideological elements. Our study of Russian women’s fiction finds that contrary to the canons of the genre, Russian auth…
Identity beyond othering: Crisis and the politics of decision in the EU’s involvement in Libya
This article focusses on the concept of decision and its significance for identity politics. Constructivist scholarship established long ago that identity and foreign policy are mutually constitutive and that difference and othering are key for the production of identities. As a consequence, constructivist literature on EU foreign policy has focussed on the role of specific others and explored how interaction with them shapes the EU’s identity. O…
Indigeneity and subaltern subjectivity in decolonial discourses: A comparative study of Bolivia and Russia
The politics of remembering: Saint Petersburg's 300th anniversary
With Leningrad abandoned, what are the stories told about St. Petersburg, the town named after Apostle Peter? In particular, how was the city's Tercentenary jubilee staged? Discarding images related to Lenin and the Soviet era could signal liberation. Tapping into alternative mnemonic resources could allow the city to free itself from a variety of constraints by utilizing the imperial heritage and the various linkages to Europeanness embedded the…
F*** tha police!” à la Russe: Rancière and the Metamodernist Turn in Contemporary Russian Music
The nationwide prominence of Russian oppositional artists has inspired a fair number of studies analyzing the political aspects of their creative output. We argue that the new generation of Russian musicians, whose art became popular in the end of 2010s, brings political engagement to a qualitatively new level. Following Jacques Rancière, we reject the assumption that critical art can bring about political mobilization by exposing social evils. I…
Post-Soviet subalternity and the dialectic of race: Reflections on Tamar Koplatadze's article
In her timely and important contribution (‘Theorising Russian Postcolonial Studies’, Postcolonial Studies 22(4), 2019), Tamar Koplatadze identifies a number of blind spots of postcolonial scholarship focused on the post-Soviet space. This comment explores some of the implications of Koplatadze’s critique of such concepts as subaltern empire and internal colonisation to highlight the importance of applying the master–slave opposition in a dialecti…
Resisting Entropy, Discarding Human Rights: Romantic Realism and Securitization of Identity in Russia
The ways in which the notion of human rights is interpreted in Russian foreign policy discourse are investigated. It is shown that the discourse is dominated by romantic realism — a methodological position which it is claimed reveals the `real' motives for political action but that develops an explicitly idealistic framework for analysis. Romantic realism regards human rights as an instrument used by the West to hinder the internal consolidation …
The politics of remembering: Saint Petersburg's 300th anniversary
With Leningrad abandoned, what are the stories told about St. Petersburg, the town named after Apostle Peter? In particular, how was the city's Tercentenary jubilee staged? Discarding images related to Lenin and the Soviet era could signal liberation. Tapping into alternative mnemonic resources could allow the city to free itself from a variety of constraints by utilizing the imperial heritage and the various linkages to Europeanness embedded the…
Russia in the Baltic Sea Region: Desecuritization or Deregionalization
Relations between Russia and the Baltic States — the weakest link in the Baltic Rim — have significantly improved since 2000. One of the explanations for this improvement is the fact that in contemporary Russian political discourse national identity is desecuritized. The role of the Baltic states has radically changed: they are no longer considered as an embodiment of the ‘false’, anti-Russian Europe. However, despite the desecuritization of nati…
Sovereignty and democracy in contemporary Russia: A modern subject faces the post-modern world
Obsessed with identity: The IR in post-Soviet Russia
Multilateralism, Multipolarity, and Beyond: A Menu of Russia’s Policy Strategies
The article examines the main approaches to multilateralism that coexist nn Russian foreign policy thinking. It argues that these approaches must be put in the context of the debate on multipolarity, which comes out as a direct opposition to the Western “collective unilateralism.” Both as an abstract model and as a concrete practice, multipolarity is not synonymous with multilateralism; certain visions of a multipolar world, such as great-power m…
The external constitution of European identity: Russia and Turkey as Europe-makers
The view of identities as always situated in a relationship with the Other underlies contemporary constructivist social theory. Taking a step further, and combining constructivist approaches to identity with insights from post-colonial studies, this article argues that the Other, far from being a mere presence, often plays an active role in identity politics. By tracing the historically varying ways in which Turkey and Russia have engaged in Euro…
Is “Non-Western Theory” Possible? The Idea of Multipolarity and the Trap of Epistemological Relativism in Russian IR
An important recent development in the discipline of International Relations (IR) has been the growing interest in the national schools and “non-core” theorizing. Even though this interest is fully justified, we argue that the tendency to describe all such schools as invariably promising and helpful in overcoming the Eurocentrism of the discipline is misguided. It originates in the false assumption that the infinite diversity of collective experi…
Subaltern Empire: Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Russian Foreign Policy
Russia can be considered both an empire and a subaltern, a duality reflected in Russian foreign policy, especially its promotion of multipolarity. Voices that claim to speak for the subaltern cannot always be trusted, since they often silence and oppress rather than emancipate and empower others
Russia's Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World
Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic of the subaltern
Indigeneity and subaltern subjectivity in decolonial discourses: A comparative study of Bolivia and Russia
Identity beyond othering: Crisis and the politics of decision in the EU’s involvement in Libya
This article focusses on the concept of decision and its significance for identity politics. Constructivist scholarship established long ago that identity and foreign policy are mutually constitutive and that difference and othering are key for the production of identities. As a consequence, constructivist literature on EU foreign policy has focussed on the role of specific others and explored how interaction with them shapes the EU’s identity. O…
New Nationalisms and Identity Politics: Minorities, Majorities and Universal Emancipation
A defining feature of new nationalisms, with their right-wing populist rhetoric, is the way they exploit the regime of truth prevalent in liberal democratic societies. Their use of the language of democracy, human rights and identity is sometimes hard to differentiate from the mainstream convention. Despite being majoritarian in the way it seeks democratic legitimacy, new nationalist discourse consistently advances demands framed in terms of mino…
Popular Culture and Authoritarianism in Russia: A Study of Common Sense Through the Prism of Women’s Fiction
The high level of support enjoyed by the authoritarian regime in Russia has been interpreted as evidence of the reactionary character of Russian mass consciousness. We question this view by adopting a neo-Gramscian perspective on popular culture and common sense. We view common sense as protean, combining incongruous beliefs and ideological elements. Our study of Russian women’s fiction finds that contrary to the canons of the genre, Russian auth…
Post-Soviet subalternity and the dialectic of race: Reflections on Tamar Koplatadze's article
In her timely and important contribution (‘Theorising Russian Postcolonial Studies’, Postcolonial Studies 22(4), 2019), Tamar Koplatadze identifies a number of blind spots of postcolonial scholarship focused on the post-Soviet space. This comment explores some of the implications of Koplatadze’s critique of such concepts as subaltern empire and internal colonisation to highlight the importance of applying the master–slave opposition in a dialecti…
Class, Culture, and the Problem of Leadership
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova's book focuses, as a central problem, on the relationship between the political leadership and the people in Russia. It seeks to explain Putinism as a particular type of political regime, or, to be more precise, of regime legitimacy. By mapping out the existing literature and matching it with the results of her field research, she builds up a convincing explanation of Vladimir Putin's popularity as hinging on the emotional b…
Uneven worlds of hegemony: Towards a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity
The neo-Marxist literature on uneven and combined development has made significant progress towards a comprehensive theory of the international. Its point of departure is societal multiplicity as a fundamental condition of the international. This article identifies an important lacuna in the ontology of multiplicity: there is no discussion of what constitutes a 'society', or the basic entity capable of entering a relationship with other entities.…
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum
This forum reconsiders the standing of ‘the international’ in relation to ‘critique’. Is this relation best understood in ways reminiscent of the ‘Fourth Great Debate’, where the international, associated with political realism, was targeted for deconstruction by critical approaches drawn from outside International Relations? Or is the international, on the contrary, itself a source of potential critique needing to be excavated and utilized, as r…
Russia and the liberal order: From Contestation to Antagonism
Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine is rightfully viewed as a major violation of the fundamental norms of international society. It creates a problem for the literature on the liberal international order, which used to treat Russia as engaging in contestation-a legitimate practice which, according to some accounts, constitutes an essential aspect of any order. This article aims to develop a conceptual frame for the radical rupture resulting …
F*** tha police!” à la Russe: Rancière and the Metamodernist Turn in Contemporary Russian Music
The nationwide prominence of Russian oppositional artists has inspired a fair number of studies analyzing the political aspects of their creative output. We argue that the new generation of Russian musicians, whose art became popular in the end of 2010s, brings political engagement to a qualitatively new level. Following Jacques Rancière, we reject the assumption that critical art can bring about political mobilization by exposing social evils. I…
Political science (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (8 works)