Russia: Still open to the west? Evolution of the state identity in the foreign policy and security discourse

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 821-839

  Kassianova, Alla ^a  

^a TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONAL SECURITY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0034774743     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668130120078513     Document Type: Article

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3. David Campbell, Writing Security. The US Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity (Manchester University Press, 1992), pp. 8, 75-77.
4. For a detailed account of its historical stages see for example Ivanov-Razumnik, Istoriya russkoi obshchestvennoi mysli, 3 vols (Moscow, Terra, 1977).
5. See for example argumentation on the limited relevance of Western social science paradigms for interpreting non-Western (including Russian) social and political process by Aleksei Bogaturov, 'Desyat' let paradigmy osvoeniya', Pro et Contra, 5, 1, Winter 2000 pp. 195-201.
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8. My italics.
9. Bill McSweeney, Security, Identity & Interests: a Sociology of International Relations (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 212, 213.
10. Ibid. p. 11.
11. Cited in Campbell, p. 24.
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13. Stephen Sestanovich, 'Geotherapy. Russia's Neuroses, and Ours', The National Interest, Fall 1996, p. 6.
14. Andrei Zdravomyslov, 'Relyativistskaya teoriya natsii', Svobodnaya mysl', 1999, 1, pp. 64-78 at pp. 66-70.
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18. Aleksei Arbatov, 'Natsional'naya ideya i natsional'naya bezopasnost' ', in Vneshnyaya politika i bezopasnost' sovremennoi Rossii. Khrestomatiya, vol. 1, book 1 (Moscow, Moskovskii Obshchestvennyi Nauchnyi Fond, 1999), pp. 195-247, especially 235-236; James Richter, 'Russian Foreign Policy and the Politics of National identity', in Wallander (ed.), pp. 69-95 at pp. 77-84; Andrei P. Tsygankov, 'From International Institutionalism to Revolutionary Expansionism: The Foreign Policy Discourse of Contemporary Russia', Mershon International Studies Review, 41, 2, November 1997, pp. 247-268.
19. Aleksei Arbatov, 'Natsional'naya ideya i natsional'naya bezopasnost' ', in Vneshnyaya politika i bezopasnost' sovremennoi Rossii. Khrestomatiya, vol. 1, book 1 (Moscow, Moskovskii Obshchestvennyi Nauchnyi Fond, 1999), pp. 195-247, especially 235-236; James Richter, 'Russian Foreign Policy and the Politics of National identity', in Wallander (ed.), pp. 69-95 at pp. 77-84; Andrei P. Tsygankov, 'From International Institutionalism to Revolutionary Expansionism: The Foreign Policy Discourse of Contemporary Russia', Mershon International Studies Review, 41, 2, November 1997, pp. 247-268.
20. Tsygankov, pp. 249-250; Richter, pp. 77-79; Arbatov, p. 235.
21. Ibid.
22. Tsygankov, for example, distinguishes between 'moderate' and 'aggressive' realists.
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24. E. Pozdnyakov, 'Geopoliticheskii kollaps i Rossiya', Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn', 1992, 8-9, pp. 5-15; A. Panarin, 'Vtoraya Evropa ili Tretii Rim?', Voprosy filosofii, 1996, 10, pp. 19-31.
25. See for example Aleksei Bogaturov, 'Plyuralisticheskaya polyarnost' i interesy Rossii', Svobodnaya mysl', 1996, 2, pp. 25-36.
26. See for example Sergei Rogov, 'Kontury novoi rossiiskoi strategii', NG-stsenarii, 1998, 3.
27. Bruce D. Porter, 'Russia and Europe After the Cold War: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign policies', in Wallander (ed.), pp. 142; Astrid S. Tuninez, 'Russian Nationalism and the National Interest in Russian Foreign Policy', in Wallander (ed.), p. 264, Urban, 'Remythologising … ', p. 986; Tsygankov, 'From International Institutionalism …', p. 264.
28. Bruce D. Porter, 'Russia and Europe After the Cold War: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign policies', in Wallander (ed.), pp. 142; Astrid S. Tuninez, 'Russian Nationalism and the National Interest in Russian Foreign Policy', in Wallander (ed.), p. 264, Urban, 'Remythologising … ', p. 986; Tsygankov, 'From International Institutionalism …', p. 264.
29. Bruce D. Porter, 'Russia and Europe After the Cold War: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign policies', in Wallander (ed.), pp. 142; Astrid S. Tuninez, 'Russian Nationalism and the National Interest in Russian Foreign Policy', in Wallander (ed.), p. 264, Urban, 'Remythologising … ', p. 986; Tsygankov, 'From International Institutionalism …', p. 264.
30. Bruce D. Porter, 'Russia and Europe After the Cold War: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign policies', in Wallander (ed.), pp. 142; Astrid S. Tuninez, 'Russian Nationalism and the National Interest in Russian Foreign Policy', in Wallander (ed.), p. 264, Urban, 'Remythologising … ', p. 986; Tsygankov, 'From International Institutionalism …', p. 264.
31. Urban, pp. 972-973.
32. Mark Kramer, 'What is Driving Russia's New Strategic Concept?', in Erin Powers (ed.), Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo No. 103, Harvard University, January 2000.
33. A helpful overview of the research methods for analysing the discourse is given in Jennifer Milliken, 'The Study of Discourse in International Relations: A Critique of Research and Methods', European Journal of International Relations, 5, 2, 1999, pp. 225-254.
34. On the political background of the formulating of Russian foreign policy in the 1990s, and specifically in 1992-93, see Nikolai Kosolapov, 'Stanovlenie sub"ekta rossiiskoi vneshnei politiki', Pro et Contra, 2001, 6, pp. 7-30; and
35. Yurii Fedorov, 'Krizis vneshnei politiki Rossii: kontseptual' nyi aspekt', Pro et Contra, 2001, 6, pp. 31-49.
36. 'Rossiiskaya Armiya: "Voinstvennaya Zhivost"', Nevskoe vremya, 7 December 1993.
37. Valerii Manilov, 'Voennaya Reforma - Orvet na Vyzov Vremeni', Krasnaya zvezda, 12 January 1999.
38. Viktor Krivokhizha, Rossiya v Novom Mire: Vremya Reshenii (Moscow, 1997), pp. 141-143.
39. 'Kontseptsiya vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii', Diplomaticheskii vestnik, 1993, 1-2 (Spetsvypusk), pp. 3-23 at p. 20.
40. 'Kontseptsiya natsional'noi bezopasnosti Rossiiskoi Federatsii', Diplomaticheskii vestnik, 1998, 2, pp. 3-18.
41. Ibid. p. 5.
42. Ibid. p. 7.
43. 'Kontseptsiya vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii', Diplomaticheskii vestnik, 2000, 8.
44. Apart from the 'CIS member countries', who are considered unproblematic partner states.
45. 'Kontseptsiya natsional'noi bezopasnosti Rossiiskoi Federatsii', Diplomaticheskii vestnik, 2000, 2.