Eurasian Integration and the Russian World

Aliaksei Kazharski

Eurasian Integration and the Russian World

Regionalism as an Identitiary Enterprise

This volume examines Russian discourses of regionalism as a source of identity construction practices for the country's political and intellectual establishment. The overall purpose of the monograph is to demonstrate that, contrary to some assumptions, the transition trajectory of post-Soviet Russia has not been towards a liberal democratic nation state that is set to emulate Western political and normative standards. Instead, its foreign policy discourses have been constructing Russia as a supranational community which transcends Russia's current legally established borders.

The study undertakes a systematic and comprehensive survey of Russian official (authorities) and semi-official (establishment affiliated think tanks) discourse for a period of seven years between 2007 and 2013. This exercise demonstrates how Russia is being constructed as a supranational entity through its discourses of cultural and economic regionalism. These discourses associate closely with the political project of Eurasian economic integration and the "Russian world" and "Russian civilization" doctrines. Both ideologies, the geoeconomic and culturalist, have gained prominence in the post-Crimean environment. The analysis tracks down how these identitary concepts crystallized in Russia's foreign policies discourses beginning from Vladimir Putin's second term in power.

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Auteur

Aliaksei Kazharski

Aliaksei Kazharski received his PhD in European studies from Comenius University in 2015. He has worked as a researcher and lecturer at Charles University in Prague and Comenius University in Bratislava. He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Oslo (Norway), Tartu (Estonia), Vienna (Austria), and Malmö (Sweden), the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM) and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Since 2019 he has also been a fellow at Visegrád Insight.
Kazharski’s research interests have included Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, regionalism, identity in international relations, critical approaches to security and terrorism studies. He is the author of two monographs: Eurasian Integration and the Russian World. Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise (CEUPress 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. A Return to the Margin? (Rowman&Littlefield 2022), winner of the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award.
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Eurasian Integration and the Russian World
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Regionalism as an Identitiary Enterprise
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Acknowledment
Foreword by Viatcheslav Morozov
Introduction

Chapter 1. Regionalism as a Russian Identity-Building Project
Chapter 2. The Post-Soviet as Postmodern? Theorizing Identitary Discourses in Russia
Chapter 3. The Language of Civilizations in Post-Soviet Russia
Chapter 4. A "Russian Civilization": Constructing Unity across Fragmentation
Chapter 5. Cultural Regionalism as a Non-Western Model of Global Order
Chapter 6. Toward a "Eurasian Union"? Economic Regionalism and Reconstitution of Russian Identity
Chapter 7. Eurasian Regionalism and the European Union: New Uses for the Old Other

Conclusion
References