1st Edition

Exploring Russia’s Exceptionalism in International Politics

Edited By Raymond Taras Copyright 2024
174 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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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Biography

Raymond Taras is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University, USA