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The quest of a defeated Self - understanding identity management in post-Soviet Russia

Sandström, Amanda LU (2024) STVK05 20232
Department of Political Science
Abstract
A certain volatility in regard to Russia’s relationship to the West has characterized international political space since 1991. If Gorbachev and Yeltsin succeeded in negating the Soviet Russian past to thus attempt to make possible an integration with the value community of Western civilizations, Putin has conducted a strategy that initially seemed to be aimed at securing global multipolarity and
internationally governing principles of Westphalian sovereignty, non-intervention
and territorial integrity. Lately, he has nonetheless engaged Russia in an
increasingly aggressive Hobbesian state behavior. Starting from the infamous
words of Alexander Wendt - “anarchy is what states make of it” - the following
paper investigates the micro... (More)
A certain volatility in regard to Russia’s relationship to the West has characterized international political space since 1991. If Gorbachev and Yeltsin succeeded in negating the Soviet Russian past to thus attempt to make possible an integration with the value community of Western civilizations, Putin has conducted a strategy that initially seemed to be aimed at securing global multipolarity and
internationally governing principles of Westphalian sovereignty, non-intervention
and territorial integrity. Lately, he has nonetheless engaged Russia in an
increasingly aggressive Hobbesian state behavior. Starting from the infamous
words of Alexander Wendt - “anarchy is what states make of it” - the following
paper investigates the micro effects of an intersubjective understanding of
international anarchical culture. Focusing on social identity management and
status seeking in international society it suggests that the discursive and cognitive structures that constitute an international macroculture, position and portray the national ‘Self’ in relation to an external ‘Other’ in specific ways thus affecting the cognitively possible social identity management strategies on a micro level. (Less)
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author
Sandström, Amanda LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK05 20232
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
russia, post-soviet identity, national identity, constructivism, social identity management, international culture, anarchical culture, international practice
language
Swedish
id
9143764
date added to LUP
2024-02-06 11:58:02
date last changed
2024-02-06 11:58:02
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  abstract     = {{A certain volatility in regard to Russia’s relationship to the West has characterized international political space since 1991. If Gorbachev and Yeltsin succeeded in negating the Soviet Russian past to thus attempt to make possible an integration with the value community of Western civilizations, Putin has conducted a strategy that initially seemed to be aimed at securing global multipolarity and
internationally governing principles of Westphalian sovereignty, non-intervention
and territorial integrity. Lately, he has nonetheless engaged Russia in an
increasingly aggressive Hobbesian state behavior. Starting from the infamous
words of Alexander Wendt - “anarchy is what states make of it” - the following
paper investigates the micro effects of an intersubjective understanding of
international anarchical culture. Focusing on social identity management and
status seeking in international society it suggests that the discursive and cognitive structures that constitute an international macroculture, position and portray the national ‘Self’ in relation to an external ‘Other’ in specific ways thus affecting the cognitively possible social identity management strategies on a micro level.}},
  author       = {{Sandström, Amanda}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The quest of a defeated Self - understanding identity management in post-Soviet Russia}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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