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Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods
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In this paper, Russian Orientology and "Oriental Renaissance" in Fin-de-Siecle Europe are discussed. But the focus is on the East and not on the West.Abstract:
Introduction: Russian Orientology and 'Oriental Renaissance' in Fin-de-Siecle Europe 1. Nation, Empire, and Regional Integration 2. Perceptions of East and West 3. Power and Knowledge 4. Critiques of European Scholarship 5. Imperial Scholars and Minority Nationalisms on the Eve of the 1917 Revolutions 6. Imagining Minorities as Nations in the 1920s Conclusionread more
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Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy
Abstract: Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia’s foreign policy. The chapters draw from numerous theoretical traditions by incorporating ideas of domestic institutions, considerations of national security and international recognition as sources of the nation’s foreign policy. Covering critically important subjects such as Russia’s military interventions in Ukraine and Syria, the handbook is divided into four key parts: Part I explores the social and material conditions in which Russia’s foreign policy is formed and implemented. Part II investigates tools and actors that participate in policy making including diplomacy, military, media, and others. Part III provides an overview of Russia’s directions towards the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia, and the Arctic. Part IV addresses the issue of Russia’s participation in global governance and multiple international organizations, as well as the Kremlin’s efforts to build new organizations and formats that suit Russia’s objectives. The Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy is an invaluable resource to students and scholars of Russian Politics and International Relations, as well as World Politics more generally.
Mediated Europes : Discourse and Power in Ukraine, Russia and Poland During Euromaidan
TL;DR: This paper focused on mediated representations of Europe during Euromaidan and subsequent Ukraine-Russia crisis, analysing empirical material from Ukraine, Poland and Russia, and found that the material inclu...
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The Eye of the Tsar: Intelligence-Gathering and Geopolitics in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia
Abstract: This dissertation argues for the importance of knowledge production for understanding the relationship between the Russian Empire, the Qing Dynasty, and European actors, from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. It focuses specifically on intelligence-gathering, including espionage, as a genre of intellectual work situated in state institutions, oriented toward pragmatic goals, and produced by and for an audience of largely anonymous bureaucrats. It relies on archival sources from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Rome, as well as published materials. The dissertation begins by investigating how seventeenth-century Siberians compiled information about China, and how maps and documents were transmitted first to Moscow and then to Western Europe to be republished for wider audiences. It then examines the post-Petrine shift to more specialized forms of intelligence-gathering, focusing on industrial espionage in the Moscow-Beijing trade caravan. As the dissertation shows, the changing priorities of the Russian intelligence gathering apparatus shaped and often crippled the ability of Russian Qing experts to address wider audiences. On the mid-eighteenth-century Russo-Qing border, the dissertation follows the building of a robust Russian intelligence network in Qing Mongolia amid unprecedented inter-imperial tension, and its ultimate failure to achieve desired geopolitical ends. These intelligence failures are then shown to provide a compelling
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Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the works and intellectual network of the Timurid historian Sharaf al Dín 'Alī Yazdī (d.1454) and present a holistic view of intellectual life in fifteenth century Iran.