The Masks of Proteus
Russia, Geopolitical Shift and the New Eurasianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Smith (0000-0002-8537-4241, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 481-494 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.t01-2-00481.x |
| OpenAlex | W1964036602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 18 |
Despite the growing interest within international relations theory and political geography in critical geopolitics, there has been little engagement – other than from Western perspectives – with the relationship between geopolitics and national identities in Russia. This article examines this relationship by focusing on the emergence of Eurasianism within geopolitical discourse, and the manner in which such representations of Russia as a distinctive Eurasian civilization and power inform geopolitical thinking, particularly in relation to the shift in Russia's foreign policy since around early 1993. The article first explores the emergence of competing geopolitical discourses amongst political opinion‐makers before turning to consider how particular sites –‘the Near Abroad’, ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’– have been officially reinscripted as part of Russia's understanding of itself as a Eurasian power. The article draws upon the geopolitical writings of prominent Russian theorists and statesmen and Russian government policy statements and documents from 1993 to early 1999
Foreign policy · Geopolitics · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy
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Geopolitical games in Eurasian regionalism
From Offsetting to Emulation
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Geopolitical worldview of Russian students
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
El nacionalismo ruso y sus visiones geopolíticas de Eurasia
Russia’s spatial development and the emerging greater Eurasia
Measuring Russia’s Snag on the Fabric of the EU’s International Society
Insecurity, incoherence, and imagined geographies in Central Europe
Discursive and material practices of space and modernization in Russia
The Geopolitical Orientations of Ordinary Russians
Where in the World is Russia? Geopolitical Perceptions and Preferences of Ordinary Russians
An Empire's Fraying Edge? The North Caucasus Instability in Contemporary Russian Geopolitical Culture
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism
Spatial Practices and Time in Estonia
The Anglosphere and the European radical right
Dmitriy Streltsov on Japan’s modernization in the globalization epoch
China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Strategy in Eurasia and Euro-Atlanticism
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Russian geopolitical culture and public opinion
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Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism
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Black Hundred
Russian Foreign Policy
Transnational politics and the politics of the Russian diaspora
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |