Critical geopolitics on Russian foreign policy: Uncovering the imagery of Moscow’s international relations
Critical geopolitics on Russian foreign policy: Uncovering the imagery of Moscow’s international relations
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俄罗斯外交政策的关键地缘政治：揭示莫斯科国际关系的形象
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2016
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Mariya Omelicheva
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作者：
Mariya Omelicheva
实用主义和帝国主义的框架一直主导着对俄罗斯外交政策的分析。尽管俄罗斯的国际行为与实用主义和扩张主义的期望有着明显的相似之处，但本研究认为，莫斯科的外交政策受到了更微妙和动态的国际关系概念的影响。为了揭示俄罗斯最高外交政策制定者所构想的全球政治形象，本研究采用了批判性的地缘政治视角。后者将外交政策视为一种社会、文化、话语和政治实践，以构建、捍卫和实践关于国际关系“真理”的替代主张。本研究阐明了俄罗斯的空间概念的世界，它的国际行为体的看法，其国家身份的话语。它展示了这种图像如何进入俄罗斯的地缘政治推理，为俄罗斯政府在邻国及其他地区投射软实力和硬实力提供了“合理性”。
The pragmatic and imperialist frames have dominated the analyses of Russian foreign policy. Despite the glaring similarities of Russia’s international conduct with expectations of pragmatism and expansionism, this study argues that Moscow’s foreign policy has been informed by more nuanced and dynamic conceptions of international relations. To uncover the imagery of global politics, as conceived by Russia’s top foreign policy makers, this study employs a critical geopolitics perspective. The latter views foreign policy as a social, cultural, discursive, and political practice of constructing, defending, and living the alternative claims about the ‘truths’ of international relations. The study illuminates Russia’s spatial conceptions of the world, its views of the international actors, and its national identity discourse. It shows how this imagery enters Russia’s geopolitical reasoning that provides the Russian government with ‘rationality’ for projecting soft and hard power in the neighborhood and beyond.