Facing up to the Bear: Confronting Putin's Russia

Freudenstein, Roland

doi:10.1007/s12290-014-0330-6

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“…81 Some security experts argued that the annexation of Crimea was evidence of Russia becoming a 'revisionist power that plans to reverse developments from the past 20 years'. 82 Moscow was to be held accountable, with some politicians and analysts going as far as to argue that Russia's President was also irrational, as if his behaviour was haphazard and scarcely consistent with what he had done or had promised to do in the past. 83 The annexation was rather the hallmark of a new conflictual era, regardless of the relations between Russia and many 'Western' states being frosty, to say the least, in the years prior to the annexation of Crimea.…”

Section: Blaming the Russian Government And 'New' Cold War Analogiesmentioning

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Narrating events and imputing those responsible: Reflexivity and the temporal basis of retrospective responsibility

Fazendeiro

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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By showing how a number of temporal assumptions shape three mutually exclusive narratives, the article argues for a mediated and reflexive understanding of events, one that is more open and less likely to fall into the pitfalls of a confrontation between different versions of retrospective responsibility. The article begins by looking beyond the agency and structure debate and into the temporal dimension of narrative, mainly for the sake of understanding the relationship between continuity and change. The article covers three potential narratives, focusing on their influence on the study of events, policy, and retrospective responsibility. It then illustrates their impact on mainstream understandings of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. Upon describing the problems of positing strict continuity and change, both of which impact accounts of retrospective responsibility, the outline of a more reflexive, mediated approach to events and temporality is introduced, based on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics. In doing so, the article demonstrates the disadvantages of Erlebnis, an approach that unreflexively applies a limited set of temporal assumptions, highlighting instead the advantages of Erfahrung, an approach that strives for a mediated understanding of events.

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Section: Blaming the Russian Government And 'New' Cold War Analogiesmentioning

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Narrating events and imputing those responsible: Reflexivity and the temporal basis of retrospective responsibility

Fazendeiro

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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“…Active position in the Ukrainian crisis and military campaign in Syria are expressive symptoms of Russia's revival as one of the great powers. Western science is dominated by a negative image of Russia's role in the modern world: either the renewal of the empire and the relaxation of the West (Freudenstein, 2014), or the restoration of the Soviet Union and the carve-up of Europe (Orenstein, 2015). However, modern Russia is an entity that has not yet found itself.…”

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Russian Civilization In The Search Of Identity In New Geopolitical Conditions

Авксентьев¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to a new geopolitical, cultural and civilizational realitypost-Soviet Russia. Having overcome many crises, Russia is again becoming a real power capable of intensively influencing the geopolitical transformations of the modern world. The paper emphasizes that it is the geopolitics that primarily determines the vectors of Russian civilization's search for its identity. Russia's post-Soviet history clearly identifies two main stages of geopolitical and civilizational selfdetermination. The first, coming in the 1990s and partly in the early 2000s, was characterized by the desire of new political elites to integrate as much as possible into western structures and institutions. Being liberal-minded and perceiving the West as an unconditional winner in the cold war, Russian political leaders, with substantial popular support, saw the West as the most attractive civilizational center. At this point, the West had a unique opportunity to turn Russia into a reliable partner for a long time. However, old stereotypes about Russia's a priori hostility took over. Disappointment in the West, which absorbed not only the political elite, but also a substantial part of the population, led to Russia's geopolitical and civilizational reorientation from the West to the East. The paper concludes that the "focus on the East" that Russia has in recent years does not necessarily mean that the existing conflict with the West is enhancing. All parties to geopolitical confrontation should understand that many problems of modern times can only be solved by joint efforts.

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East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint

Tudoroiu

2018

Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe

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Facing up to the Bear: Confronting Putin's Russia

Cited by 4 publications

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Narrating events and imputing those responsible: Reflexivity and the temporal basis of retrospective responsibility

Narrating events and imputing those responsible: Reflexivity and the temporal basis of retrospective responsibility

Russian Civilization In The Search Of Identity In New Geopolitical Conditions

East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint

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