Russia’s Return as True Europe, 1991-2017

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ID7732352
AutoresIver B Neumann (0000-0002-1199-2813, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas78-91
Data de publicação2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoConflict and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arcs.2017.030107
OpenAlexW2756254627
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas12

Since the reign of Peter the Great, Russia has identified itself in opposition to Europe. In the late 1980s, Michael Gorbachev and associates forged a liberal representation of Europe and initiated a Western-oriented foreign policy. Against this westernizing or liberal representation of Europe stood what was at first a makeshift group of old Communists and right-wing nationalists, who put forward an alternative representation that began to congeal around the idea that the quintessentially Russian trait was to have a strong state. This article traces how this latter position consolidated into a full-fledged xenophobic nationalist representation of Europe, which marginalized first other forms of nationalism and then, particularly since 2013, liberal representations of Europe. The official Russian stance is now that Russia itself is True Europe, a conservative great power that guards Europe’s true Christian heritage against the False Europe of decadence and depravity to its west

Decadence · Economic history · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reign · Sociology · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · European Politics and Security · Global Political and Economic Relations · History · Law