Russia's Postcolonial Identity [electronic resource] : A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World /
Morozov, V.author.
Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic of the subaltern and the imperial has produced a radically anti-Western regime, which nevertheless remains locked in a Eurocentric outlook.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Postcolonial and the Imperial in the Space and Time of World Politics; 2 Russia in/and Europe: Sources of Ambiguity; 3 Material Dependency: Postcolonialism, Development and Russia's 'Backwardness'; 4 Normative Dependency: Putinite Paleoconservatism and the Missing Peasant; 5 The People Are Speechless: Russia, the West and the Voice of the Subaltern; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic of the subaltern and the imperial has produced a radically anti-Western regime, which nevertheless remains locked in a Eurocentric outlook.
International relations.
Russia—Politics and government.
European Union.
United States—Politics and government.
Political science.
International Relations.
Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.
European Union Politics.
US Politics.
Political Science.