Eurasianist Rhetoric in Russia and Kazakhstan. Negotiating Hegemony through different Visions of Society.
Journal: Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
Year: 2018

This study fathoms the question what Eurasianist discourse in Russia and Kazakhstan reveals about contemporary hierarchy dynamics between Russia and Central Asia. To grasp these dynamics, the study relies on an English School theoretical framework. It links Filippo Costa Buranelli’s ‘negotiated hegemony’ concept with the gemeinschaft-gesellschaft distinction introduced to the English School by Barry Buzan. While the former provides an analytical framework for contemporary spheres of influence ar