Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 2

2021 April/June

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Ho-Hum West, No-Nonsense East

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-5-8

Russia: Quest for Security

Russia in the Post-Soviet Space: Dual Citizenship as a Foreign Policy Instrument

Igor A. Zevelev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-10-37

Russia’s Neighborhood Policy and Its Eurasian Client States: No Autocracy Export

Pål Kolstø, Helge Blakkisrud

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-38-62

Global Rivalry: New Approaches

Russia in the Digital World: International Competition and Leadership

Andrei O. Bezrukov, Mikhail V. Mamonov, Maxim A. Suchkov, Andrei A. Sushentsov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-64-85

Hard and Soft Power Approaches to Armed Conflicts: The United States in Iraq and Russia in Syria

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-86-110

Transformation of the Global Film Industry: Prospects for Asian Countries

Georgii D. Paksiutov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-111-132

Statecraft Strategies

Non-Western Model of Civil Society in the Middle Eastern Context: Promises and Discontents

Pavel V. Shlykov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-134-162

A Post-Soviet Empire?

Andrei A. Teslya

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-164-182

Response

“Fascism,” the Relevant Past, and Monologues in the Face of Others

Konstantin A. Pakhalyuk

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-184-195

Offending with Fascism, Or More on the Relevance of History

Sergey M. Solovyov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-196-207

Review

A New Look at “Old Science”

Mikhail Grachyov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-208-215

Articles

Ho-Hum West, No-Nonsense East

The problem in the current dialogue with European partners is that they are following this track by inertia, although no one any longer believes that it will lead somewhere.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Russia in the Post-Soviet Space: Dual Citizenship as a Foreign Policy Instrument

Keeping the post-Soviet space as Moscow’s exclusive zone of influence is the Kremlin’s strategic goal. Transnational citizenship may eventually become one of the main tools for ensuring Russia’s hegemony in the region.

Igor A. Zevelev

Russia’s Neighborhood Policy and Its Eurasian Client States: No Autocracy Export

Moscow’s support for autocratic regimes abroad appears to be more a pragmatic means to enhance security and national interests than an end in itself.

Pål Kolstø, Helge Blakkisrud

Russia in the Digital World: International Competition and Leadership

For Russia, the minimal task is to preserve the sovereignty of decision-making in the main areas of its national security; the maximal task is to create its own competitive technological ecosystem, become the leader of a techno-economic bloc and a key participant in the development of new rules of the game in this sphere.

Andrei O. Bezrukov, Mikhail V. Mamonov, Maxim A. Suchkov, Andrei A. Sushentsov

Hard and Soft Power Approaches to Armed Conflicts: The United States in Iraq and Russia in Syria

Whereas the Iraq War came as a disaster for the U.S., the military operation in Syria—despite dire predictions—created strengths and opportunities for Russia in international relations.

Transformation of the Global Film Industry: Prospects for Asian Countries

The cultural strategies of Asian powers must be effectively adjusted to the current realities because the positions of the leaders in the emerging new film industry will be increasingly difficult to challenge in the future.

Georgii D. Paksiutov

Non-Western Model of Civil Society in the Middle Eastern Context: Promises and Discontents

The fragmentation of civil society and the lack of mutual trust among its organizations standing on different political platforms make it extremely difficult for civil society to consolidate its potential and generate sociopolitical development from below. The same factors do not allow external forces to achieve the desired result from their tangible and intangible investments in the development of civil society, and lead to soft-power fiascoes.

Pavel V. Shlykov

A Post-Soviet Empire?

Russia’s current foreign policy is both post-imperial and post-Soviet. The prefix ‘post’ does not mean impotence or uncertainty. It means that the present is predetermined by the past, it is the inheritor of the past.

Andrei A. Teslya

“Fascism,” the Relevant Past, and Monologues in the Face of Others

History has become one of the public languages (discourses) in the political life of not only Russia, but also other European countries, and the use of this language, be it newspapers or academic journals, implies a certain meaning for those who participate in such discussions.

Konstantin A. Pakhalyuk

Offending with Fascism, Or More on the Relevance of History

Attempts to define fascism mostly through ideology, so trendy these days, do not work, precisely because in most fascist movements and in all fascist regimes ideology plays primarily a manipulative role.

Sergey M. Solovyov

A New Look at “Old Science”

Interest in political geography in Russia surged in the 1990s when it caught up with economic and social geography as a science in its own right. However, over the past quarter of a century it has lost much of that interest.

Mikhail Grachyov