BRICS: Emerging, Resisting, Cloning
The concept “emerging power” is fashionable among specialists in international relations. However, questions abound. Is an emerging power a state that is pragmatically using a moment of Western weakening to…
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Makarychev
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IR in Europe: A Normative Turn Still Underway
The first European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) gave a comprehensive view of the state of the discipline, with 14 sessions running in parallel and 200 researchers participating. Global governance…
Putin’s Regime and Semiotic Irony
Semioticians probably have the best sense of humor among all social scientists. Those who think that the hegemonic discourse in today's Russia is boring are wrong. Some of its segments…
The Dual Citizenship Topic in Germany
(By Olga Gulina) Influential regions of Germany are proposing changes to some of the most sensitive issues of the country’s immigration policies. The lands of Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony,…
России есть чему поучиться у Эстонии
(online.vedomosti.ee) "Процессы внутри ЕС делают Эстонию очень привлекательным регионом", – сказал профессор Тартуского университета Андрей Макарычев на конференции "Россия далекая и близкая: о возможностях и рисках делового сотрудничества". В своем…
Practicing Soft Power in a Volatile Region
This looked like an idyll: Armenians and Azeris, Russians and Georgians, add Turks and Armenians, for four days of discussion on such flammable issues as religion, democracy, and nationality in…
Europe Day: Diversity Instead of Unity?
May 9 is Victory Day for Russia and Europe Day for the EU. These continental celebrations, however, form an indicative illustration of how far away from each other Moscow and…
The Russian Version of Euro-Skepticism
Regretfully, anti-European rhetoric in Russia is on the rise. The Russia Today TV Channel (“RT”) readily covers the most Euro-skeptic parties all across Europe. Pseudo-scholars like Alexander Dugin contemplate Russia's…
Lukashenko as a Symptom of German Troubles
When Manfred Sapper, editor-in-chief of the German Osteuropa journal, in his public discussion with the Belorusian writer Sviatlana Kurs asked, “What does Germany have to do with the Lukashenko regime?",…
Russia’s Liberals in a “Battle for Reality”
Russia does not fit in traditional Western theories of political science and perhaps needs more nuanced explanations reaching beyond habitual dichotomies like “democracy–authoritarianism.” This assertion by Theodor Shanin at the…