Andrey Makarychev
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 257371 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrey Makarychev |
| NOMBRES | Andrey |
| APELLIDO | Makarychev |
| FIRMA | MAKARYCHEV A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4527-6978 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 108 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 229 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Forum
This Forum discusses how different international actors learn different lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how the logics discernible behind these lessons may define the future shapes of a new international order to substitute the post-1991 system of international relations. In this Forum, a group of scholars discuss the lessons learned from the perspective of Europe’s normative credentials, demonstrating tensions between idea(l)s of …
The Echoes of the Russo-Ukrainian War in Estonia
In this article, we discuss how the ongoing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine transformed Estonia's attitudes toward material legacy of the Soviet past. Our nodal points for research are the Estonian government’s policies of relocations of monuments semantically associated with the communist power. Such a perspective allows us to demonstrate how these practices of de-glorification triggered new narratives aimed to legitimize or delegitimize, as well a…
Fake Healing and Popular Biopolitics
This article seeks to conceptualise the nexus of vernacular narratives and biopolitics and unpack it using the empirical material of pro-Russian video bloggers operating in the occupied territories of Ukraine, namely in the city of Mariupol. Our theoretical focus is a combination of biopolitics and critical media studies. Our main research question is: how – through what semantic tools – does the occupier propagate narratives and imageries suppor…
Multiple Identität oder Doppelleben
Learning from Ukraine
The visual politics of empathy
Regionalism at a distance? War and minilateralism at Europe’s eastern flank
Instrumentalizing Navalny’s legacy
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe
This short piece introduces three articles that form a special section discussing how critical security studies might be helpful for conceptualizing new insecurities in the region of Central Europe and the Baltic states
The political life of post-industrial objects
The article discusses how material legacies of the past are conceptualized as cultural and artistic objects, and in this capacity inscribed into the contemporary Estonian political debates on security, identity, and borders. One section focuses on the city of Narva where the compound of the Kreenholm factory is located. Another part looks at industrial objects in smaller towns where the Soviet material heritage is intermingled with the EU-promote…
The spatial repercussions of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Russia’s war on Ukraine has generated a new chain of insecurities in Europe: energy and food crises, new migration flows from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, military threats sharpened by Russia’s invasion are triggering a spatial and territorial reshuffling of Europe’s Eastern flank. In this context, regional dynamics within and across the Eastern frontiers of Europe have undergone a succession of path-breaking transformations ranging from overt su…
Russian war, Estonian exceptions
The author analyzes Estonia as a case study to explore two interrelated research questions – how exceptions are produced and reversed through the mechanisms of sovereignty and governmentality projected onto geo- and biopolitical domains, and how the new practices of exceptionalization and de-exceptionalization contribute to the emergence of a new spatial order at Europe’s eastern margins? Three types of policies unfolded in Estonia as reactions t…
Eastern Europe” and War. Introduction to the Special Issue
The present collection of papers is a joint effort aimed at making sense of the changes that Russia’s war against Ukraine ushered into the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We have invited a team of authors working on the two subregions, the Visegrád Four and the Baltic Three, to share their reflections on how the full-scale invasion has impacted the transformations in the respective countries’ regional outlook. The “kidnapping” as an o…
Finno-Ugric Identity in Estonia
This article seeks to discover how this contemporary Finno-Ugric identity has been politically instrumentalized and negotiated in Estonia. First, we look at how the Estonian state engages with the concept of Finno-Ugric world and inscribes it into Estonia’s foreign policy goals. Then, we delve into the role of Finno-Ugric traditionalism in Estonian populist and far-right discourses. Third, we discuss how local identity constitutes and cements com…
Depoliticization and Necropolitics
This article examines the intertwined logics of depoliticization and necropolitics as central elements of illiberal authoritarian power in post-2020 Belarus. It sheds light on the technologies used by Lukashenka's regime to maintain its rule, including anti-feminist visuals, violence of mass incarceration, and dehumanization and demonization of political opponents. Relying on media analysis, the article discusses how these technologies function a…
Multilateralism at War
This research examines the implications of war and diplomatic events for multilateralism in two spheres – governance and security. The focus is on the dynamics within the G20 since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The conceptual frame of analysis presumes that states' practices and relations are constitutively shaped by discourses visible through the lens of governmentality and the critical security perspective. To highlight the impacts o…
The Performative (Bio)Politics of Bare Life
This article has two focal points and two protagonists. First, it aims to look at the case of the self-proclaimed rebellious Siberian shaman Alexandr Gabyshev who became known in Russia since 2019 as a public figure and an anti-Putin crusader. Secondly, Gabyshev’s political crusade made the Russian president himself – even if indirectly – part of the ensuing public narrative that popped up around the shaman. The key research question I wish to ad…
La nouvelle diaspora russe en Estonie
La guerre de la Russie contre l'Ukraine a engendré des flux migratoires massifs en provenance des deux pays. Dans ce court texte, j’évoque la nouvelle diaspora russe en Estonie - un groupe relativement restreint de citoyens russes qui ont fui leur pays après la reprise de la guerre en Ukraine le 24 février 2022. Ces exilés constituent ce que l'on pourrait appeler la « Russie extérieure », avec ses propres discours de victimisation, de culpabilité…
Conflictual Rebordering
This article seeks to analyse the process of conflictual rebordering in the EU’s relations with Russia. The authors single out three major crises that triggered and shaped the process of toughening the border regime and the related transformations of political meaning of the EU-Russia border: the COVID-19 pandemic, the drastic deterioration of Moscow-Brussels relations in the beginning of 2021 and the war in Ukraine that started on 24 February 20…
Introduction
This introductory note discusses how the concept of securitisation might be used as a tool for understanding the different logics driving and standing behind foreign policies of major international stakeholders in situations of crises, emergencies and exceptions. The editors look at how securitisation functions as a discursive instrument for reshaping actors’ subjectivities, and how it might be adjusted to the rapid changes in global politics tri…
Normalize and rationalize
Electoral Campaigns in Times of Lockdown
This article aims to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon electoral campaigns in a fragile democracy (Georgia) and two illiberal polities (Belarus and Russia). It covers the period of time from March to December 2020, focusing on several critical junctures in each country: for Belarus, the 9 August 2020 presidential elections; for Russia, the 1 July ‘people's vote’ and the cycle of regional elections in September 2020; and for Georgia…
Reactive Re-Bordering, Geopolitics and Biopolitics
This contribution to the Forum intends to shed light on the most recent changes in Estonia’s policies towards Russia, Belarus and Ukraine after February 24, 2022. I intend to show how the Russian–Ukrainian war transformed Estonia’s relations with its eastern neighbors. I start the analysis with a general account of spatiality and bordering in Estonia’s foreign policy thinking, with the ensuing distinction between its geopolitical and biopolitical…
Visual Biopolitics of Multiple Insecurities
Сonservative populism in Italy and Estonia
U-turns by populist parties are not a new phenomenon. The 2021 electoral campaign in Estonia was marked by episodes that combined cultural hybridity and political opportunism. The nationalist Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) was reprimanded by the Language Inspectorate for using Russian-language campaign posters with no Estonian translation. The same party was celebrating Estonian independence with a concert performing Soviet-time po…
Biopolitics and Power in Putin’s Russia
In Putin’s third term, official rhetoric has become a normative, moralizing discourse promoting Russian traditional values as opposed to the “moral decay” of the West. This “biopolitical turn” in Russian politics–a redefining of the boundaries of the Russian political community and extension of state sovereignty into private lives–is part of the authoritarian drift of the Russian political regime
Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe
An Estranged ‘marriage of convenience’
This article seeks to tackle two interrelated issues. First, it explains the nature of the mutual affection of the right wing of Italian politics – exemplified by the Lega – and the Kremlin. Concomitantly, we explore the reasons behind the Lega’s predilection for Putin’s regime, seeing it as part of this party’s public strategy, and look at the factors behind Russia’s reciprocal – though limited and contextual – sympathies towards Salvini and his…
Brands, cities and (post-)politics
This article analyses how two large-scale sports events in Russia shape regional identities and brands, and prompt different social and administrative effects in urban milieus. These two mega-events are the Universiade in Kazan’ in 2013 and the Football World Cup to take place in 11 Russian cities, among which we focus more specifically on Nizhny Novgorod. We argue that the logic of municipal and regional authorities is largely based on post-poli…
The New Social Media in Russia
As direct expressions of social activism and spaces offering spontaneous interaction, the new social media play an increasingly important role as Russians imagine a post-Putin regime
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia
The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, our multinational group of scholars draws on past and ongoing research to suggest a roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. Key research questions include not only how states are responding to the new coronavirus, b…
From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”
The article analyzes historical monuments as instruments of Russia’s attempts to impose its aesthetic hegemony in the post-Communist world. Drawing on case studies from the Czech Republic and Estonia, it argues that this hegemony is precarious and vulnerable due to inability to deal with the inherent ambiguity and complexity of historical events and figures. The Russian approach regards historical truth in absolute terms and is underpinned by a z…
Illiberal geographies
In this article, we focus on how a variety of illiberal discourses construct a scene for new geopolitical and geocultural imageries of the post-Soviet space, Europe, and Eurasia. Academically, our approach falls into disciplinary niches known as popular geopolitics (when it comes to territories) and biopolitics (when it comes to people). More specifically, we try to see how Russian artistic personalities and public intellectuals contribute to the…
Redefining Europe
This article uses approaches embedded in practical and popular geopolitics for analysing how Russia capitalizes on the refugee crisis to redefine Europe. Two of Russia’s European policies are at the centre of this analysis: 1) Moscow’s direct appeal to Russian-speaking communities, and 2) the Kremlin’s liaisons with Eurosceptic parties of national conservative background. The main questions these two policies raise are: 1) how Russia benefits fro…
"The 2014 Sochi Olympics and "Sovereign Power
From a political linguistics perspective, the preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games offer insight into the Kremlin-orchestrated Olympic discourse, especially the idea of sovereignty—constitutive for Putin's rule—and reveal challenges to this discourse from outside and inside the ruling group
Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus
Biopower and geopolitics as Russia's neighborhood strategies
In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant realist approaches to Russia's neighborhood policy by introducing the concept of biopolitics as its key element, which makes analysis of political relations in the post-Soviet area more nuanced and variegated. More specifically, we address an important distinction between geop…
Biopolitics and national identities
International audience
Multilateralism, Multipolarity, and Beyond
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…
Explaining Russia’s war against Ukraine
Visual Biopolitics
The article introduces the concept of visual biopolitics as a new research approach to studying politics. The analysis starts with a discussion of how visualization might be helpful for political analysis and continues with academic engagement with semiotic studies, along with the theories of aesthetic and mimetic representation and performativity. Then the author explains how visuals can trigger political debates, particularly in the sphere of b…
Populisms, popular geopolitics and the politics of belonging in Estonia
The current article is focused on the various types of populism in Estonia (e.g. Estonian national populism, hybrid populist discourse, etc.) in which we discuss the complex phenomenon of populism in two contexts: EU political upheavals (the refugee crisis of 2015 which received special attention from populist politics in Europe) and complex Russian-EU relations. For our analysis we interviewed several Estonian politicians and opinion-leaders. We…
Сonservative populism in Italy and Estonia
U-turns by populist parties are not a new phenomenon. The 2021 electoral campaign in Estonia was marked by episodes that combined cultural hybridity and political opportunism. The nationalist Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) was reprimanded by the Language Inspectorate for using Russian-language campaign posters with no Estonian translation. The same party was celebrating Estonian independence with a concert performing Soviet-time po…
Entertain and Govern
The article looks at Russia’s international sports politics from two different perspectives. The authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and stabilizing its foundations. They argue that, due to mega-events, the Russian state has found itself under persistent external pressures from international organizations, and has had to react to them and adjust its legal norms and policy practices accordingly. The…
Bordering and Identity-Making in Europe After the 2015 Refugee Crisis
Introduction to the spacial issue that presents and analyzes the state of debate on EU's immigration policies from a geopolitical perspective
Russia’s role in regional cooperation and the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR)
This article examines EU–Russian relations in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) utilizing the concepts of counter-hegemonic socialization and soft power. The implications of the Ukrainian crisis for regional cooperation in the BSR are also taken into account. The compatibility of EU and Russian regional strategies are considered, as well as how these can often be mutually unaware of one another, or even confrontational. It argues that BSR regional inst…
Suturing the Neighborhood? Russia and the EU in Conflictual Intersubjectivity
In this article three arguments are key. First, we deem that the conflict conventionally described as “a battle over Ukraine,” under a close constructivist scrutiny, reveals its much deeper roots, which ultimately boil down to the unfinished process of mutual readjustment of two identities-in-the making, that of the post-Soviet Russia and thatof the post-Lisbon EU, respectively. Second, we claim that, in spite of the depth of contradictions betwe…
The Modernisation Debate and Russian-German Normative Cleavages
The key research questions of this article are: what are the political trajectories of the modernisation concept as seen from Russia and Germany, and what are the divergent contexts in which modernisation is articulated in these two major powers with a dense history of cooperative relations and huge resources to influence the future of a wider Europe? The authors apply methods of critical discourse analysis for uncovering the multiple meanings of…
Politics, the State, and De-Politicization
Putin transplanted business practices into the political domain, applying managerial principles rather than ideology
Normalize and rationalize
Russian Financial-Industrial Groups and the Regions
Contribution of the regions to Russian security policy
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of International Relations at the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University in Russia.1 His areas of expertise are security studies, regionalism and federalism and international relations theory. In 2001–02, Andrey was a guest scholar at the Zurich-based Centre for Security Studies and Conflict Research and the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute
Where the North Meets the East
The purpose of this paper is to analyse Poland’s Eastern Dimension (ED) proposal as seen from the marginality theoretical background. The basic argument is that the ED stands out as a discursive battlefield for different representations of Poland and of Europe’s margins. In devising its marginality strategy, Poland has learned from Finland about the ability of a state at the edge of the European Union to have an impact on the whole. However, Pola…
Pskov at the Crossroads of Russia's Trans-border Relations with Estonia and Latvia
Energy relations in Russia
This chapter analyses energy relations through a prism of three interlinked concepts: administration, politics and security. This triad describes the basic approaches to questions about technical, politicised and securitised energy. These three concepts are logically linked to one another and represent an elementary matrix; a prism through which different segments of the energy discourse can be analysed. The proposed scheme is of research interes…
National counter-terrorism strategies
This publication discusses and compares various reactions to the challenges of mass-scale terrorism. Five countries are at the centre of the research: The United States, Great Britain, France, Turkey and Russia, each of them being a victim of multiple terrorist attacks. This volume is grounded in a conceptual presumption that the countries directly affected by terrorism produce different types of responses. Of course, there is much in common in a…
Russia's Search for International Identity Through the Sovereign Democracy Concept
The search for common language has become a demanding issues in the Russia-EU relationship. One of the strongest messages contained in Russia's "sovereign democracy" concept is its desire to be regarded as a "normal" country, a full-fledged member of the international community. The concept embodies a search for its own subjectivity, which is ultimately felt to be a pre-condition for its self-assertion vis-à-vis Europe. Russia does not question a…
Introduction to the Special Issue
The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly reshaped debates on the global order, democratic politics and the liberal mode of governing societies. Some have compared the virus to the “ultimate empty signifier”, which allowed difficult ideological groups to fill it with their own securitizations, creating in an instant a plethora of political otherings. For IR realists, the sudden collapse of cross-border movement and other privileges of the global…
Politics, the State, and De-Politicization
Putin transplanted business practices into the political domain, applying managerial principles rather than ideology
Conceptualising neighbourhood
Multilateralism, Multipolarity, and Beyond
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…
Alternative Logics of Russian Regionalism
This paper argues that a combination of different concepts in critical theories provides an interesting perspective—grounded in a peculiar interplay of different forms of power—on important mechanisms of change at the regional level in Russia. By resorting to critical theories one can better understand at least two important aspects of Russian regionalism. One is the dichotomy of politicization-depoliticization , which singles out two different v…
Ponars as a Transnational Epistemic Community
The history of PONARS, an international community of scholars, reveals the intersections between policy and academic expertise
Identity and Representation in Russia's Regions
In this paper, the author seeks to find pathways of extrapolating the critical potential of post-structuralist reasoning to the study of Russia's domestic regions' policies. He argues that ideas, norms and rhetorical frames are important ideational arguments to explain policy outcomes in specific Russia's region and in the whole system of Russian federalism. Analysis of Russian regionalism, therefore, can be enriched by engaging with and adopting…
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…
The EU, Russia and Models of International Society in a Wider Europe
The research objective of this article is two-fold: On the one hand, this study aims at analysing the multifaceted EU-Russia relations as seen from different theoretical/conceptual approaches. On the other hand, this article examines how the EU-Russia dialogue is organised in sectoral terms – economy, trade, visa regime liberalisation, and security cooperation. Both the promising and problematic areas in the EU-Russia bilateral relations are iden…
The New Social Media in Russia
As direct expressions of social activism and spaces offering spontaneous interaction, the new social media play an increasingly important role as Russians imagine a post-Putin regime
Inside Russia’s Foreign Policy Theorizing
The paper offers a new approach to conceptualizing a variety of Russian foreign policy schools. The author explains the distinction between academic theories and political doctrines and argues that in Russia the borderline between the two is often fuzzy. Then he categorizes foreign policy discourses as political (with realism and conservative normativism as the two most telling examples) and post-political / de–politicized. Each of these discours…
The Culture of Protest
The Four Pillars of Russia’s Power Narrative
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the annexation of Crimea were two major international events in which Russia engaged in early 2014. In spite of all the divergence in the logic underpinning each of them, four concepts strongly resonate in both cases. First, in hosting the Olympics and in appropriating Crimea, Russia was motivated by solidifying its sovereignty as the key concept in its foreign and domestic policies. Second, the scenarios for…
Andrey Makarychev, Russian Identities and the Idea of International Society 20 Years after the Fall of the USSR
In the paper the author analyzes different Russian international identities of the post-Soviet period. Stressing that the Russian identity discourse cannot be simply reduced to the Soviet one, the paper emphasizes the plurality of Russia’s identity discourses. At the same time the menu of Russian foreign policy identities to a large extent depends upon a variety of international structures in which Russia may imagine to engage with. The paper sug…
"The 2014 Sochi Olympics and "Sovereign Power
From a political linguistics perspective, the preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games offer insight into the Kremlin-orchestrated Olympic discourse, especially the idea of sovereignty—constitutive for Putin's rule—and reveal challenges to this discourse from outside and inside the ruling group
Brands, cities and (post-)politics
This article analyses how two large-scale sports events in Russia shape regional identities and brands, and prompt different social and administrative effects in urban milieus. These two mega-events are the Universiade in Kazan’ in 2013 and the Football World Cup to take place in 11 Russian cities, among which we focus more specifically on Nizhny Novgorod. We argue that the logic of municipal and regional authorities is largely based on post-poli…
The Modernisation Debate and Russian-German Normative Cleavages
The key research questions of this article are: what are the political trajectories of the modernisation concept as seen from Russia and Germany, and what are the divergent contexts in which modernisation is articulated in these two major powers with a dense history of cooperative relations and huge resources to influence the future of a wider Europe? The authors apply methods of critical discourse analysis for uncovering the multiple meanings of…
A New European Disunity
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