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In: Osteuropa 20
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In: Global discourse: an interdisciplinary journal of current affairs and applied contemporary thought, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 180-190
ISSN: 2043-7897
Russia's open military aggression against Ukraine is a matter of agentic misrecognition rather than of classic rationalist considerations. Through the war in Ukraine, Russia exercises neglected agency and tries to reverse the feeling of marginalisation, irrelevance and status degradation in world politics. Russia's war in Ukraine allows the current Russian leadership to escape from the stigma of an impotent power and to stabilise its identity as an important one, independent of Western norms and rules. Looking at Russia's revisionism from the perspective of agentic misrecognition has some advantages. First, it helps in filling gaps that conventional interpretations and explanations of the war, found prominently in both public and academic discourses, leave open. These are problematic because they are too entrenched in positivist thinking and construct the world along essentialist concepts. Second, it allows room to understand the war as the result of a contingent process. In this process, it is not only the agency expectations of Russia's leadership that play an important role but also the relational dynamics between Russia and the West and their impact on the further transformation of Russian identity constructions and self-descriptions.
In: European review of international studies: eris, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. 483-519
ISSN: 2196-7415
Abstract
This article argues that the analytical concept of scale can provide researchers with a more holistic, entangled, and decolonised research perspective on Eurasian regionalism. By drawing on the socio-spatial analytical perspective of scale, I show how we can overcome theoretical biases and conceptual divides in and between the entangled fields of ir and Eurasian studies.1 A scalar perspective helps to dissolve these biases and divides by de-essentialising Eurasia as a region and conceptualising it as a contested, constructed and contentious political geography, formed by powerful actors who use the notion of 'region' to further their political interests. One virtue of a scalar perspective is that it reveals the multidimensional character of Eurasian regionalism and its connectedness with the global, depending on the imaginaries activated, the vested power interests pursued, and the regional, inter-regional and international networks created in a specific issue area.
In: Russland-Analysen, Issue 408, p. 5-9
ISSN: 1613-3390
Mit der Bundestagswahl und der anstehenden Regierungsbildung besteht eine Chance, die deutsche Russlandpolitik neu aufzustellen. Alle relevanten Parteien haben in ihren Programmen Vorschläge gemacht, wie das schwierige Verhältnis zu Russland künftig gestaltet werden soll. Dabei werden die Beziehungen vor allem im Kontext eines globalen »Systemwettstreits« zwischen Demokratien und Autokratien verortet. Für eine zielgerichtete Politik wäre es wichtig, im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kooperation und Abgrenzung intelligente Instrumente zu entwickeln, die zum einen die machtpolitischen Interessen und Kosten-Nutzen- Kalküle des Kremls konsequenter mitdenken und zum anderen stärker auf den Schutz und die Resilienz der offenen Gesellschaften des Westens ausgerichtet sind.
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In: Russland-Analysen, Volume 408, p. 5-9
ISSN: 1613-3390
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In: Russland-Analysen, Issue 408, p. 5-9
Mit der Bundestagswahl und der anstehenden Regierungsbildung besteht eine Chance, die deutsche Russlandpolitik neu aufzustellen. Alle relevanten Parteien haben in ihren Programmen Vorschläge gemacht, wie das schwierige Verhältnis zu Russland künftig gestaltet werden soll. Dabei werden die Beziehungen vor allem im Kontext eines globalen "Systemwettstreits" zwischen Demokratien und Autokratien verortet. Für eine zielgerichtete Politik wäre es wichtig, im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kooperation und Abgrenzung intelligente Instrumente zu entwickeln, die zum einen die machtpolitischen Interessen und Kosten-Nutzen-Kalküle des Kremls konsequenter mitdenken und zum anderen stärker auf den Schutz und die Resilienz der offenen Gesellschaften des Westens ausgerichtet sind.
In: East European politics, Volume 35, Issue 2, p. 122-142
ISSN: 2159-9173
In: Sicherheit und Frieden: S + F = Security and Peace, Volume 37, Issue 2, p. 74-81
ISSN: 0175-274X
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In: Friedensgutachten, p. 232-245
ISSN: 0932-7983
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In: Communist and post-communist studies, Volume 47, Issue 3-4, p. 333-343
ISSN: 0967-067X
This article examines the emotion-based status-seeking logic in Russia's foreign policy vis-à-vis the West, presenting the example of Russia's reactions to NATO's military campaign against Serbia in 1999. It is argued that Russian assertiveness in combination with expressive rhetoric must be understood as a result of the ruling elite's need to have Russia's identity and self-defined social status as an equal great power in world politics respected by its Western interaction partners. Russia's reactions to NATO's intervention, which was not authorized by the UN Security Council, must be read as a strategy coping with the emotion anger about the perceived humiliation and provocation of status denial and ignorance by the West. We find various elements of such a coping strategy, among them the verbalization of the feeling of anger among Russian political circles and the media; uttering retaliation threats, but no 'real' aggressive, retaliatory action; minor and temporary activities aimed at restoring Russia's image and status as an influential an equal power. On the surface, the Kosovo episode did not result in any visible break or rift in the RussianeWestern relationship. However, emotionally it has lead to a significant loss of trust in the respective partner on both sides.
In: Communist and post-communist studies: an international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 47, Issue 3-4, p. 333-343
ISSN: 0967-067X
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In: Communist and post-communist studies: an international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 47, Issue 3, p. 333-343
ISSN: 0967-067X
In: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik: ZFAS, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 463-465
ISSN: 1866-2196
In: Osteuropa, Volume 63, Issue 8, p. 45-58
ISSN: 0030-6428
Russlands politische Elite beschwört den Großmachtstatus ihres Landes wie ein Mantra. Russland habe weiter ein Recht darauf, jene Rolle in der Weltpolitik zu spielen, die die Sowjetunion und das Zarenreich innehatten. Russlands Außenpolitik zeigt allerdings, dass es Moskau weniger um tatsächlichen Machtzuwachs geht als vielmehr um Anerkennung des sozialen Status als Großmacht. Russland will dabei sein, will konsultiert, in seinem Selbstbild akzeptiert und respektiert werden. Moskaus Politik ist jedoch inhaltsleer und wenig konstruktiv. (Osteuropa (Berlin) / SWP)
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