Culture, political economy and civilization in a multipolar world order : the case of Russia / Ray Silvius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silvius, Ray, author.

Series:

RIPE series in global political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia (Federation)--Foreign economic relations.

Russia (Federation).

International economic relations.

Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Russia (Federation)--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

viii, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2017]

Summary:

This book demonstrates how Russia's multifaceted rejection of American unipolarity and de-territorialised neo-liberal capitalism has contributed to the gestation of the present multipolar moment in the global political economy. Analysing Western world order precepts via the actions of a powerful, albeit precarious, national political economy and state structure situated on the periphery of Western world order, Silvius explores the manner in which culture and ideas are mobilised for the purposes of national, regional and international political and economic projects in a post-global age. The book: Explains and analyses the tensions of post-Soviet Russia's integration into, and simultaneous partial rejection of, the capitalist global political economy. Provides an overview of the social, political and historical origins of Russian samobytnost' (uniqueness) after the fall of the Soviet Union and demonstrates their significance to contemporary understandings of world order. Explores how structures of cultural difference and practices of cultural differentiation interact with the normative legacies of American hegemonic aspirations in contemporary world order structures. Evaluates how cultural and civilisational representations are mobilised for state-projects and their corresponding regional and international dimensions within the global political economy. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Russian Foreign Policy, IPE and comparative political economy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction and methodology

A critical historicism for post-Soviet Russia within international political economy

Examining Russia's post-communist transitional political economy

The embedding of Russian state-sanctioned multipolarity in the post-Soviet conjuncture

The Russian state, Eurasianism, and civilisations in the contemporary global political economy

Aleksandr Dugin's Eurasianism : co-opting or co-opted in Russia's Putin era civilizational project?

The legacy of Vladislav Surkov : regime sanctioned culture in the service of national political economy

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138956049

113895604X

OCLC:

956583639