Finding a Civilisational Idea

West,” Eurasia,” and “Euro-East” in Russia's Foreign Policy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7784980
AutoresAndrei P Tsygankov (0000-0002-4314-1116, a Departments of International Relations and Political Science , San Francisco State University , San Francisco, California, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen12
Número3
Páginas375-399
Fecha de publicación2007-07-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650040701305617
OpenAlexW2093827900
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas49

Civilisations are imagined, ratherm than real, and nations undergoing identity crises typically represent themselves through multiple civilisational visions. Scholars of geopolitics can hardly understand foreign policy without analysing those visions and social contexts, in which they rise and fall. This article selects for analysis three distinct civilisational ideas of Russia – “West,” “Eurasia” and “Euro-East” – associated with Boris Yeltsin, Yevgeni Primakov and Vladimir Putin, respectively. Russia's foreign policy is best understood as reflecting those civilisational ideas rather than merely material power conditions

Aesthetics · Development economics · Economics · Foreign policy · Geopolitics · Identity (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy