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Russia's Geostrategic Outlook and the Syrian Crisis (Hardcover)
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Russia's Geostrategic Outlook and the Syrian Crisis (Hardcover)
Series: St. James's Studies in World Affairs
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In this groundbreaking study, international relations scholar
Hicham Tohme offers a critique of current academic, scholarly, and
public understandings of Russia's geostrategic outlook through the
lens of the ongoing Syrian crisis. This critique is based on a
reassessment of four key concepts that shape our knowledge of
Russia's foreign policy. First, the Westphalian state system is an
inadequate a point of reference when applied to a country that
still perceives itself and behaves as an empire. Second, justifying
aggressive foreign policy as a counterweight to a perceived
deficiency in the legitimacy of Russian President Vladimir Putin's
leadership oversimplifies Russian political culture and public
values, which do not overlap with Western norms and institutions.
Third, analysis of Russian foreign policy, as well as of Russia's
global role, remains restricted to what can be best described as a
'post-Cold War framework', a static image of global history for the
past thirty years. Finally, most geopolitical and foreign affairs
analyses focus on diplomatic and foreign policy rhetoric, rather
than foreign policy praxis, as the primary data on which to draw
conclusions. Offering an alternate explanation, this study examines
Russia's intervention in the Syrian crisis to reveal practices that
have come to characterize its global strategy and outlook for the
past decade. As such, Russian policy in Syria will be presented as
part of a praxis that can describe many facets of Russian global
disposition. This clearly places geopolitical practices, not
rhetoric, at the heart of the analysis. Further, this book relies
on the concept of habitus to explain how these practices inhere in
a long tradition of Russian behavior, advancing the notion that
they must be understood as part of a historical continuum of
Russia's political culture, mainly when it comes to its perception
of its neighbors. By adopting a non-Westphalian framework and
escaping the epistemological and methodological foundations of
traditional foreign policy analysis, this book seeks to answer two
key questions: How can we best describe Russia's geostrategic
predispositions? And how can we understand Russia's involvement in
the Syrian crisis in light of this analysis?
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