Mastering space in Eurasia: Russia's geopolitical thinking after the Soviet break-up

被引:64
作者
Tsygankov, AP [1 ]
机构
[1] San Francisco State Univ, Dept Int Relat, Oakland, CA 94609 USA
关键词
Eurasia; geopolitics; security; Russia; space; culture;
D O I
10.1016/S0967-067X(02)00055-7
中图分类号
D81 [国际关系];
学科分类号
030207 ;
摘要
This essay assumes the significance of spatial imagination in shaping the political and cultural boundaries of the post-Soviet Eurasia and reviews the newly emerged geopolitical arguments in Russia. Rather than perceiving Eurasianist views in Russia as relatively homogeneous, I argue that such thinking is highly diverse and varies from West-friendly versions to those that are openly isolationist and expansionist. To support my argument, I select six recently published Russian volumes and group them into five distinct schools of Russia's geopolitical thinking, each with their own intellectual assumptions, worldviews, and bases of support in the society. While writing on the same subject of the Eurasian geopolitics, each author proposes principally different solutions to the problems that emerged over the 10 years of Russia's post-communist experience. The argument invites us to rethink the nature of Russia's spatial thinking and activities in Eurasia and to seriously consider engaging Russia as an equal participant in a larger collective security-based arrangement in the region. Geography may 'matter'...only as the moment in which abstract universal social processes, such as social stratification, state-building, and ideological hegemony, are revealed in space. John Agnew and Stuart Corbridge, Mastering Space (1995, 13) (C) 2003 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:101 / 127
页数:27
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