1st Edition
Exploring Russia’s Exceptionalism in International Politics
This book explores Russia’s sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia’s conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia’s special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these concepts in relation to Russia’s history and its present behaviour, and also in relation to other countries’ views of themselves as exceptional, the book highlights Russia’s sense of its own identity as a key factor shaping current international events.
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List of Contributors
Chapter 1 “Rethinking How Historically Exceptional Russia Has Been”
Raymond Taras
Chapter 2 “Beyond the Core: Conceptualising Russia's Hybrid Exceptionalism in Times of War”
Kevork Oskanian
Chapter 3 “Mission Narrative in Russian Foreign Policy. The Comparative Perspective”
Alicja Curanović
Chapter 4 “Squaring the Circle: Legitimizing the Putin Regime after February 24, 2022”
Bo Petersson
Chapter 5 “Exception and Analogical Reasoning in Ukrainian and Russian Political Discourses”
Yulia Kurnyshova and Andrey Makarychev
Chapter 6 “Messianic Discourses and the Ideology of Putinism”
Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 7 “Human Rights and the Exceptionalism of Russian Law and Politics
Mikhail Antonov
Chapter 8 “The Emergence of Contending Universalisms: Russian and American Exceptionalist
Diplomacy 1917-1918”
Molly O’Neal
Chapter 9 “Russia’s Exceptional Role in Managing Kazakhstan’s Postcolonial Identity”
Vera Grantseva Ageeva
Chapter 10 “The Soviet Federative State: Its Exceptional Formation - and Dismemberment”
David Lane
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Index
Biography
Raymond Taras is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University, USA
