1st Edition

Eurasian Integration and the Russian World Regionalism as an Identitiary Enterprise

By Aliaksei Kazharski Copyright 2019
230 Pages
by Central European University Press

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... Read more
Acknowledgement, 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

Biography

Aliaksei Kazharski is lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava.