I. Safranchuk, V. Zhornist, A. Nesmashnyi, Daniil N. Chernov
{"title":"The Dilemma of Middlepowermanship in Central Asia: Prospects for Hegemony","authors":"I. Safranchuk, V. Zhornist, A. Nesmashnyi, Daniil N. Chernov","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-116-133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-116-133","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the shift in the balance of power in Central Asia in the context of the United States’ declining global hegemonic power. The authors analyze the hegemonic struggle between China, Russia, and the U.S. in Central Asia and its influence on the middle power formation in this region. The authors argue that although Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have high economic potentials, by certain criteria they have not achieved the status of middle powers yet. “Middlepowermanship dilemma” is formulated to explain why a hegemonic order has not been established in Central Asia and why middle powers have not emerged in the region.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355437","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":"Counter-Threat Regime and Strategic Frivolity","authors":"T. Bordachev","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-112-116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-112-116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355544","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":"Not to Burn Up in the Dense International Atmosphere","authors":"F. Lukyanov","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-4-5-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-4-5-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355359","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":"A Liberal vs A Conservative","authors":"Andrey V. Raychev, K. Stoychev","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-66-82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-66-82","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355378","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":"India’s Strategic Culture: In Search of a Systemic Element","authors":"Olga A. Alekseeva-Karnevali","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-134-156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-134-156","url":null,"abstract":"India is emerging as a global power, but its strategic culture remains largely understudied. Expert literature calls into question the very existence of India’s own “systemic” strategic thinking. The article probes into the validity of this viewpoint, postulates that India has its own strategic culture, and highlights its key elements. With the help of Michel Foucault’s genealogical method, the genealogy of the concepts of ‘war’ and ‘power’ in Indian political philosophy is examined and, on this basis, the central conceptual elements of India’s military-political system are determined. This approach shows that India’s strategic culture is distinguished not only by its own systemic strategic thinking, but also by an original (different from the Western one) way of structuring and coding the conceptual space of ‘society,’ ‘politics,’ and ‘statehood.’ This gives an idea of how war and strategy were understood in Indian culture in the past and how they are seen today. The article offers a cautious forecast of what elements of India’s strategic thinking may persist in the long term, and what geopolitical implications this may have for the future of Russia-India relations.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355448","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":"Spies, Jurists, Diplomats... and Now the Military. Who Influences Decisions in Moscow","authors":"I. Pellicciari","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-30-38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-30-38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355562","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":"Civilizational Indifference","authors":"B. Mezhuev","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-4-10-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-4-10-27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355691","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":"Anti-Westernism in Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanist Foreign Policy under Erdoğan","authors":"Ümit Nazmi Hazır","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-164-183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-164-183","url":null,"abstract":"After 2013, Turkey’s foreign policy has been noted for neo-Ottomanist rhetoric and anti-Western discourse, which resulted in the deterioration of relations with the West. To disclose the patterns of anti-Westernism in Turkish foreign policy, this paper analyzes official speeches of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan given at international meetings and events from 2014 to 2021. Based on critical constructivism, which underlines the co-constitutive relationship between identity and foreign policy, and the role of the Other in identity construction, this article demonstrates how the Western Other has been used by Erdoğan in building Turkish Ottoman identity. This article articulates the anti-Western notion of neo-Ottomanism and argues that Erdoğan’s anti-Western discourse bears the Islamic undertone and relies on the delineation of the Turkish-Ottoman Self from the Western Self. Referring to Turkish people in his speeches, Erdoğan invariably uses positive words like “justice,” “toleration” and “compassion,” while representing the West as “racist,” “imperialist,” “colonialist,” “xenophobic,” “Islam hating,” “anti-immigrant,” “unjust,” “supporting terrorism,” and “imposing double standards.”","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355289","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":"Breakdown of EU-Russia Transnational Ties: Causes and Consequences","authors":"T. Romanova","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-39-58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-39-58","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to explore the causes and consequences of the profound change in transnational ties between Russia and the European Union after February 24, 2022, that is, contacts that bypass official authorities and directly involve Russian and EU citizens (in business, science, education, culture, sports, and non-governmental organizations’ activities). The breakdown of ties is unique in speed and scale. Five causes of the breakdown of transnational ties have been identified: the position of EU officials towards Russian society; the rise of the war paradigm in the West and its pluralization (that is, its implementation on different tracks); reputational aspects; the perception of Russian society as homogeneous in supporting the operation in Ukraine; and pressure from Ukraine itself. As a result, relations between Russia and the EU have become more politicized and have lost the potential for resilience and mutual socialization. By limiting transnational ties, EU players help Russia’s ruling elite consolidate society and limit alternative thinking; they also change the vector of EU civilian power. At the same time, the rupture of transnational ties delivers a major blow to the universality of Western institutions, which will determine the pace of recovery both for Russian supporters of close relations with the West and for their opponents. The article also pinpoints certain mechanisms for rebuilding transnational ties in the medium term.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69355615","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}