| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- ONE / Authoritarianism, Ideology and Order -- Understanding Russian Authoritarianism -- Order, Smuta and the Russian State -- Russia as Weimar -- Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Order -- TWO / Carl Schmitt and Russian Conservatism -- Carl Schmitt in Moscow -- Normalising Schmitt -- THREE / Sovereignty and the Exception -- The Centrality of Sovereignty -- Sovereignty in International Affairs -- Domestic Sovereignty: Deciding on the Exception -- The Dual State -- FOUR / Democracy and the People |
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Putinism and Democracy -- The Decline of Parliamentarianism -- Constructing a Majority -- FIVE / Defining the Enemy -- Russia and Its Enemies -- The End of Consensus -- SIX / Dualism, Exceptionality and the Rule of Law -- Law in Russia -- Conceptualising Dualism -- Politicised Justice -- Mechanisms of Exception -- The Exception Becomes the Norm -- SEVEN / The Crimean Exception -- Crimea: The Sovereign Decision -- Legality as Imperialism -- Order and Orientation -- EIGHT / Großraum Thinking in Russian Foreign Policy -- A World of Great Spaces -- Russia's Spatial Crisis -- The New Schmittians |
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NINE / Apocalypse Delayed: Katechontic Thinking in Late Putinist Russia -- Russian Messianism -- Russia as Contemporary Katechon -- Katechontic Thinking and the Syrian Intervention -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria - he critically examines Russia's new authoritarian political ideology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 6, 2020) |
| Subject |
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
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| SUBJECT |
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- fast (OCoLC)fst00444788 |
| Subject |
Authoritarianism -- Russia (Federation)
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Political Science -- International Relations.
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Authoritarianism.
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Politics and government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001058
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Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474454780 |
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147445478X |
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