This handbook examines the study of international relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects. It identifies the place and role of Russia in global IR and discusses the factors that facilitate or impede the development of Russian IR studies. The contributors represent diverse Russian regions and IR schools and offer an overview of different intellectual traditions and key IR paradigms in the post-Soviet era. Filling the vacuum in international understanding of the Russian perspective on pivotal international issues, they demonstrate the continuity and change in Russia’s international policy course over the past three decades and explain how different foreign policy schools and concepts have affected Russian foreign policy making and the decision-making process. Providing a unique contribution to the discussion on non-Western IR theory, this handbook will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, Russian studies, world politics, and international studies.
This handbook examines the study of International Relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects.
Introduction Part One. Basics of Russian International Studies
1.
History of International Studies in Russia: from Ideology to Theory
2. Three
Intellectual Traditions in Russian International Studies: Westernism, Statism
and Eurasianism
3. Mapping Russian IR Schools: The Post-Soviet Era Part Two.
Russias International Relations Paradigms
4. Philosophy of International
Relations
5. Russian Geopolitics: from Geographic Determinism to Critical
Geopolitics
6. Russian ivilization Approaches to International Relations
7.
Russian Classic IR Theories
8. Regional Studies in Russia Part Three. Area
Studies in Russia
9. European Studies in Russia
10. American Studies in
Russia
11. Asia-Pacific Studies in Russia
12. Studies on Middle East in
Russia
13. Latin American Studies in Russia
14. Arctic Studies in Russia
15.
Eurasian Studies in Russia Part Four. Russia's International Research Agenda
16. Russias Vision of a New World Order: from Multipolarity to
Polycentricity
17. Russias Turn to the East?
18. International Political
Economy: Russian School
19. From Stalin to Putin: Indivisibility of Peace and
Security in Russian IR Scholarship and in Foreign Policy
20. Conflict Studies
in Russia: A Thorny Path through Ethnic Conflictology towards Integration
with the Global Scholarship
21. Russias Policy Towards the Unrecognized /
Partially Recognized Post-Soviet States
22. Russian Diplomacy Studies: State
of Art
23. Dealing with Difference: Studies on Soft Power in Russian and
Global International Relations
24. Digital International Relations:
Uncertainty, Fragmentation, and Political Framing
25. Russias Sports
Diplomacy
26. Russias Climate Neutrality?
27. The Russian Orthodox Church
and the World: Mapping the Theme for IR Studies
28. Studies of the Role of
Non-governmental Organizations in International Relations: Unity of Theory
and Selectivity of Practice In lieu of Conclusion: towards a Global IR
research agenda?
Maria Lagutina is professor of world politics department at St. Petersburg State University. She is a doctor of political sciences. Professor Lagutinas current research interests are oriented towards Eurasian integration and its regional and global dimensions, BRICS, global governance, regional integration, comparative regionalism, and international cooperation in the Arctic. Among her publications: The Russian Project of Eurasian Integration: Geopolitical Prospects (Lexington 2016; co-authored with N. Vasilyeva); Russias Arctic Policy in the Twenty-first Century: National and International Dimensions (Lexington 2019).
Alexander Sergunin is a professor of international relations at St. Petersburg State University and a professor of political science at the Nizhny Novgorod University (part time). A specialist in Russian foreign policy thinking and making, his relevant publications include Explaining Russian Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (2016).
Natalia Tsvetkova is a professor of history and head of the American studies department at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She writes about the cultural Cold War, cultural diplomacy, and extensively about current public and digital diplomacy. Among her publications: Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 19451990 (Brill, 2021) and Russia and the World: Understanding International Relations (Lexington 2017, 2020).
