{"title":"Unpacking The Concept Of Nationalism Within Russian Eurasianism","authors":"V. Torosyan","doi":"10.52837/2579-2970-2022.11.1-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52837/2579-2970-2022.11.1-27","url":null,"abstract":"Eurasianism was first developed in the first half of the 20th century among Russian emigrants. It advocated a typology of human civilizations based on cultural uniqueness and claimed the equal importance of all cultures. The issue of nationalism was connected with the understanding of culture in the writings of the Eurasianists. They believed that all the peoples of the former Russian Empire should live together in the same State for ecological and cultural reasons, thus forming a common civilization. This is how the territory of the state was formed (whether it was called the Russian Empire, the USSR or Eurasia), which under any conditions had to maintain its integrity. In the meantime, Eurasianism alternatively saw society as having a “personality” and required special descriptive terms such as “folk personality”, “symphonic personality,” “aggregate personality”, “cultural organism” etc. Thus, the purpose of the article is to analyze the understanding of the concept of nationalism in the works of Russian Eurasianists, based on the definition given by the theorist Anthony Smith as it is fully compatible to demonstrate changes in the understanding of nationalism in their works and to answer the question: how nationalism was defined precisely in Eurasianism? The paper argues that nationalism, as explained in Russian Eurasianism, which encompasses ethnic and civil aspects of the Smith definition and subsequently evolved into the idea of a common civilization, has the potential for being used in multi-ethnic and multicultural society as a unifying instrument.","PeriodicalId":112246,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Eurasia","volume":"210 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133941322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reshufflings Within Syrian Security System In 2019: Determing Political Motives And Objectives","authors":"Grigor Vardanyan","doi":"10.52837/2579-2970-2022.11.1-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52837/2579-2970-2022.11.1-20","url":null,"abstract":"This study is aimed at firstly scrutinizing the reshufflings within Syrian security system in the first half of 2019, secondly to understand the internal and external motives and objectives of new appointments in security and intelligence departments. There are two research questions: 1. What were the key factors behind the decision of the Syrian authorities to conduct reshufflings within Syrian security system? 2. What were the main internal and external actors involving in the configuration processes within Syrian security elite? In the second half of 2019 Syrian authorities were lacking loyal and credible security system which was heavily eroded facing grave threats posed by external and internal state and non-state actors during the Syrian crisis. Analyzing the reshufflings within Syrian security system, discussing the real objectives of the changes, and given all the perspectives and thoughts of subject matter experts we draw our own perspective on the subject and make conclusions.","PeriodicalId":112246,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Eurasia","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128319527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PUBLICLY DECLARED POSITIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE\u0000KARABAKH PROCESS: PROBLEMS OF CONSISTENCY AND\u0000CONTINUITY","authors":"Karine Mkhitaryan","doi":"10.52837/25792970-2021-10.2-43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52837/25792970-2021-10.2-43","url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on the analysis of the publicly declared positions of Nikol\u0000Pashinian, the Prime Minister of Armenia, in the context of the Karabakh process,\u0000examining the impact of the declared position on the negotiation process and\u0000identifying the shifts in the leader’s positions on the Karabakh issue over the time. The\u0000research is conducted using the qualitative content analysis method. The research\u0000demonstrates that Pashinian’s declared positions on Karabakh issues led to the\u0000disruption of the negotiation process and identifies that the leader’s declared\u0000positions were targeted at preserving public support and staying in power have\u0000changed over time due to the changing circumstances.\u0000Keywords: conflict resolution, negotiations, leadership, political statements,\u0000Karabakh process.","PeriodicalId":112246,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Eurasia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130446147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}