{"title":"A Future for Europe","authors":"P.A.R. Lookman","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-217-220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-217-220","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":"69355633","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":"When Will This Zap End?","authors":"Prokhor Yu. Tebin","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-10-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-2-10-23","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":"69355225","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":"China and the Crisis of the European Security System","authors":"I. Zuenko","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-182-188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-182-188","url":null,"abstract":"If there had not been an active rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing over the past decades, there would have been no Asian alternative to the European markets for Russian oil and gas, and nothing would have happened on February 24. But is China the main beneficiary of the European crisis? Is the situation developing according to the Chinese plan? There are different ways to assess the nature and consequences of the events that began in mid-February 2022. However, the following","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":"69355526","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":"Might Makes No Right: Realism and International Relations Theory","authors":"A. Tsygankov, P. Tsygankov","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-68-76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-68-76","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes the crisis of modern international relations theory (IRT) and assesses the prospects of political realism for developing a nationally oriented theory in Russia. The authors believe that realism can significantly contribute to the development of such a theory. However, the developmental tasks facing Russia go beyond the scope of realism; Russia must formulate a comprehensive idea of national development and IRT. The national idea should not be confined to the country’s survival and security; it should include the national understanding of freedom, values and development resources. Realism is not the whole truth, and in some of its manifestations it substitutes truth by power.","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":"69355663","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":"National Identity in Ukraine: History and Politics","authors":"А. Miller","doi":"10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-94-114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-3-94-114","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the historical background that determined the formation of the specific features of Ukrainian, Little Russian, and Russian identities starting from the late 17th century to the present day. It traces the evolution of Ukrainian identity from the notion of “a single Slavic-Russian people” to the current radicalization and consolidation of anti-Russian sentiment as its dominant element. At different stages of nation-building, intellectual elites molded different constructs of this identity. At times these constructs existed in parallel and independently of each other, and at other times they confronted one another. The notion of a single people (or different peoples) constantly changed. The article highlights the key distinctions of nation-building, which amid the current information war are in the shadows or deliberately ignored, but without which the understanding of the modern Ukrainian national identity will be incomplete. The current military-political crisis may result in the rejection of Ukrainians by Russian society as aliens, which can have a serious impact on Russian national identity.","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":"69355681","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":"The Soleimani effect: a risk for small states in Europe","authors":"Viljar Veebel, I. Ploom, Z. Śliwa","doi":"10.1080/23340460.2021.2018343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2018343","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by the United States has initiated debates about its reverberations on regional and global security. While it could have been a rational policy by the United States on the national level, this action has carried along innovative features defining what is a legally acceptable self-defence that international law would also accommodate. Namely, if the United States can unilaterally and retroactively interpret the meaning of international law in such a way, there are other powers like Russia or China who may wish to take advantage of such a tactic and expand the formerly relatively stable meaning of law unilaterally in line with their own national interests. Russia has previously given high importance in following the Western path and precedencies, so even when the current thesis is hypothetical and with high odds in upcoming years, it is worthy of consideration and probability analysis.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"45 1","pages":"921 - 939"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91165618","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":"International relations theory, perspectives from India","authors":"S. Narain","doi":"10.1080/23340460.2021.2003218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2003218","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent voices have challenged the Eurocentric gaze in IR . Western hegemony over the discipline has been accounted due to structural, disciplinary, language, institutional reasons, and the monopoly over knowledge production by the West. The big bangs of IR, 1919 and 1648, have played a role in the construction of a Eurocentric IR discipline which is still presumed to be a ‘White man's burden' which needs to theorize the non-West. Conversations within the IR academe to recalibrate IR are incestuous, and the ‘dialogue' is going on within the ‘conclaves' of the various national schools, rather than across the various ‘silos' within the IR community. A more appropriate ‘lens’ to make the study of IR ' Global' would be to adopt an eclectic model and to strengthen perspectives like postcolonialism, Contrapuntal reading, and Marxist perspectives to bridge the gap between the core and the periphery and reign in the silenced narratives.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"7 1","pages":"885 - 901"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85221405","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":"The role of EU health attachés for global health diplomacy in times of COVID-19","authors":"Sabrina Luh, Dorina Baltag","doi":"10.1080/23340460.2021.2008265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2008265","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While practitioners around the globe deal with the challenges posed by COVID-19, scholars of diplomacy were wondering where did all the health attachés go? Reviewing the scholarship on global health diplomacy shows, on the one hand, that health attachés are at the core of global health diplomacy while on the other, data about their role and impact is lacking. International diplomatic negotiations on health take place at the bilateral and multilateral level and rely on diplomats – and it is the health attachés that have the highest level of legitimacy. The fact that an empirical repository on these diplomats is missing comes as a surprise as at the regional level of diplomacy – the European Union – there is a considerable network of health attachés in place since the 1980s. Against this background this articles explores five distinct roles that EU health attachés embrace in Brussels and its implications for health diplomacy.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"1942 1","pages":"903 - 920"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91184948","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":"History of international relations: a non-European perspective","authors":"I. Nunoo","doi":"10.1080/23340460.2021.2003217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2003217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"150 1","pages":"941 - 943"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77423040","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":"EU counter-terrorism 20 years after 9/11:“common threat” and “common response”?","authors":"J. Monar","doi":"10.1080/23340460.2021.1995774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.1995774","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The responses of states to terrorism depend crucially on the perception and definition of the challenge by their respective governments. Two decades after the 9/11 attacks it has become normal for EU institutions to publicly assert a similar challenge/response logic. However, with EU Member States still primarily targeted by terrorists, retaining primary competence for protecting their citizens against security threats and disposing exclusively of all operational means it is worthwhile to ask whether this challenge/response logic is actually applicable to the to the EU as such rather than only to its Member States. This article explores, first, whether and in which respects terrorism can be regarded as a threat to the EU as such and, second, to what extent the EU as such has been able to develop counter-terrorism capabilities and action in response to this threat, concluding with an overall assessment of the EU as a counter-terrorism actor.","PeriodicalId":36949,"journal":{"name":"Russia in Global Affairs","volume":"67 1","pages":"631 - 648"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89034381","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}