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Eurasia 2.0 - Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media (Paperback)
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Eurasia 2.0 - Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media (Paperback)
Series: Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics
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This book discusses the return of geopolitical ideas and doctrines
to the post-Soviet space with special focus on the new phenomenon
of digital geopolitics, which is an overarching term for different
political practices including dissemination of geopolitical ideas
online, using the internet by political figures and diplomats for
legitimation and outreach activity, and viral spread of
geopolitical memes. Different chapters explore the new
possibilities and threats associated with this digitalization of
geopolitical knowledge and practice. Our authors consider new
spatial sensibilities and new identities of global as well as local
Selves, the emergence of which is facilitated by the internet. They
explore recent reconfigurations of the traditional imperial
conundrum of center versus periphery. Developing Manuel Castells'
argument that social activism in the digital era is organized
around cultural values, the essays discuss new geopolitical
ideologies which aim to reinforce Russia's spiritual sovereignty as
a unique civilization, while at the same time seeking to rebrand
Russia as a greater soft power by utilizing the Russian-speaking
diaspora or employing traditionalist rhetoric. Great Power imagery,
enemy-making, and visual mappings of Russia's future territorial
expansion are traditional means for the manipulation of imperial
pleasures and geopolitical fears. In the age of new media, however,
this is being done with greater subtlety by mobilizing the
grassroots, contracting private information channels, and
de-politicizing geopolitics. Given the political events of recent
years, it is logical that the Ukrainian crisis should provide the
thematic backdrop for most of the authors.
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