The Revisionist Moment: Russia, Trump, and Global Transition

Tsygankov, Andreï P.

doi:10.1080/10758216.2020.1788397

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“…The biggest differences between Putin's claims and CA leaderships' views are related to the territorial revisionism of Russia in post-Soviet states (Tsygankov 2021). However nonsensical, Putin claims that Russia has been robbed of its Soviet territories, with Ukraine and others being the beneficiaries of this process via "presents from the Russian people" (Putin 2021(Putin , 2022c.…”

Section: Putin's "Inseparable Security For All" and Central Asiamentioning

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Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Dadabaev

Sonoda

2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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In this article, we argue that Central Asian (CA) states' approach to the Ukrainian crisis should be defined as strategic silence. Such foreign policy reflects how CA's ideological and geographic factors and a shared information space, largely dominated by Russian and Russian-language media, facilitate the understanding of historical continuity among Russian and CA leaders. However, we also demonstrate that CA public officials' and general public's uses of strategic silence reflect the complicated reality of CA states. Their leaders and populations are cognizant of both their dependence on educational and labor opportunities in Russia and their necessity for postwar coexistence with Russia, China, and other states that are not sympathetic to the intentions of the European Union/USA in CA. Therefore, strategic silence is an approach for CA states to voice their disagreement with Russia's approach to Ukraine while avoiding being victimized by Russia and its allies for an openly anti-war stance.

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Section: Putin's "Inseparable Security For All" and Central Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Dadabaev

Sonoda

2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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“…If it is true that Russia’s aggressive foreign policy is rooted in its authoritarian system domestically (e.g. McFaul, 2020) and that a revisionist strategic culture can be ‘activated’ in an era of global systemic change (Tsygankov, 2020), the current international security crisis unleashed by Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine takes impetus from domestic authoritarianism while simultaneously bolstering it. However, the mechanisms through which democracy deteriorates remain poorly understood, especially in IR, which has delegated the question to the field of comparative politics.…”

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Depoliticising democracy through discourse: Reading Russia’s descent into autocracy and war with Jacques Rancière’s political theory

Hjermann

2023

New Perspectives

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This article investigates the role of discourses in processes of deepening authoritarianism and war. By bringing Jacques Rancière’s works on politics and depoliticisation into dialogue with poststructuralist discourse analysis, the article argues that discursive depoliticisation contributes towards authoritarian consolidation and shows how authoritarianism deepens in a co-dependent nexus of domestic and international politics. Focusing in particular on Rancière’s concept of gaps, the article argues that the core mechanism of depoliticisation is to neutralise the gap constitutive of politics proper and that this neutralisation unfolds in discourse, through the logics of archipolitics, parapolitics, metapolitics and ultrapolitics. The article (1) develops a framework for unpacking discursive depoliticisation empirically by conceptualising Rancière’s logics as ideal-typical depoliticising discourses and (2) applies that framework in an analysis of Russian official discourse in recent years (2015–2023). The article thereby explains how discursive constructions have strengthened Russian autocracy: entrenched depoliticising discourses, produced and reinforced in a co-constitutive internal/external sphere, made possible authoritarian consolidation in Russia under Putin and its war on Ukraine. The article puts forward the concept of discursive depoliticisation as a novel perspective on ‘hybrid’ and authoritarian regimes, as well as Russia’s intensified war on Ukraine and full-on autocracy from 2022 onwards.

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“…Hvis det stemmer at Russlands selvhevdende utenrikspolitikk kommer fra det Putin-regimets autoritaere karakter (f.eks. McFaul, 2020) og at global systemendring av typen vi ser nå kan aktivere sikkerhetspolitisk revisjonisme (Tsygankov, 2020), betyr det at dagens maktrivalisering internasjonalt både henter sin impuls fra innenrikspolitikken og samtidig styrker autoritaere tendenser på hjemmebane. For å adressere dette kunnskapshullet undersøker artikkelen hvordan demokratier dør 2 i skjaeringsfeltet mellom nasjonal og internasjonal politikk.…”

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Diskursiv avpolitisering av demokratiet: Å forstå autoritær konsolidering i Russland gjennom Jacques Rancières tenkning

Hjermann

2022

Internasjonal Politikk

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† SammendragDenne artikkelen undersøker diskursens rolle i konsolidering av autoritaere regimer. Gjennom å etablere en dialog mellom Jacques Rancières arbeider om politikk og avpolitisering og poststrukturalistisk diskursanalyse argumenterer artikkelen for at diskursiv avpolitisering bidrar til at autokratier befester seg, og viser at autoritaer konsolidering ofte finner sted i skjaeringsfeltet mellom nasjonal og internasjonal politikk. Artikkelen retter et saerskilt søkelys på Rancières begrep om kløfter som politikkens scene, og teoretiserer hvordan slike kløfter nøytraliseres i avpolitisering. Artikkelen fremsetter så en metode for å analysere diskursiv avpolitisering empirisk ved å konseptualisere Rancières logikker som idealtypiske avpolitiseringsdiskurser, og illustrerer denne analytiske strategien ved å anvende den på russisk offisiell diskurs i senere år (2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020). Slik forklarer artikkelen hvordan diskursive konstruksjoner har befestet Russland som autokrati: Den viser at autoritaer konsolidering i Russland under Putin muliggjøres av rotfestede avpolitiserende diskurser som (re)produseres og forsterkes i et sammenvevet innenriks-og utenrikspolitisk ** Da artikkelen ble skrevet var forfatteren tilknyttet NUPI. Nåvaerende tilknytning er University of Cambridge.

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The Revisionist Moment: Russia, Trump, and Global Transition

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Depoliticising democracy through discourse: Reading Russia’s descent into autocracy and war with Jacques Rancière’s political theory

Diskursiv avpolitisering av demokratiet: Å forstå autoritær konsolidering i Russland gjennom Jacques Rancières tenkning

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