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Author Lewis, David, 1967- author.

Title Russia's new authoritarianism : Putin and the politics of order / David G. Lewis.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and 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.
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
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
NINE / Apocalypse Delayed: Katechontic Thinking in Late Putinist Russia -- Russian Messianism -- Russia as Contemporary Katechon -- Katechontic Thinking and the Syrian Intervention -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 6, 2020).
Subject Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJr3qYc6WKtCPQC3F9yWXd
Authoritarianism -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Autoritarisme -- Russie.
Russie -- Histoire -- 1991-
Political Science -- International Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
Authoritarianism
Politics and government
Russia (Federation) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhmCp3jtcMQbx3WgpXVC
Chronological Term Since 1991
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: LEWIS, DAVID G. RUSSIA'S NEW AUTHORITARIANISM. [Place of publication not identified] : EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2020 1474454763 (OCoLC)1121144908
ISBN 9781474454780 (electronic book)
147445478X (electronic book)
1474454763
9781474454766
Standard No. AU@ 000068335348
AU@ 000069441074
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999894116705765

 
    
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