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The “Russian Idea” in International Relations - Civilization and National Distinctiveness (Hardcover)
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The “Russian Idea” in International Relations - Civilization and National Distinctiveness (Hardcover)
Series: Worlding Beyond the West
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The "Russian Idea" in International Relations identifies different
approaches within Russian Civilizational tradition — Russia’s
nationally distinctive way of thinking — by situating them within
IR literature and connecting them to practices of the country’s
international relations. Civilizational ideas in IR theory express
states’ cultural identification and stress religious traditions,
social customs, and economic and political values. This book
defines Russian civilizational ideas by two criteria: the values
they stress and their global ambitions. The author identifies
leading voices among those positioning Russia as an exceptional and
globally significant system of values and traces their arguments
across several centuries of the country’s development. In
addition, the author explains how and why Russian civilizational
ideas rise, fall, and are replaced by alternative ideas. The book
identifies three schools of Russian civilizational thinking about
international relations – Slavophiles, Communists, and
Eurasianists. Each school focuses on Russia’s distinctive
spiritual, social, and geographic roots, respectively. Each one is
internally divided between those claiming Russia’s
exceptionalism, potentially resulting in regional autarchy or
imperial expansion, and those advocating the Russian Idea as global
in its appeal. Those favoring the latter perspective have stressed
Russia’s unique capacity for understanding different cultures and
guarding the world against extremes of nationalism and hegemony in
international relations. This book will be of interest to students
and scholars of Russian foreign policy, Russia–Western relations,
IR theory, diplomatic studies, political science, and European
history, including the history of ideas.
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