Exploring Russias Exceptionalism in International Politics

This book explores Russia's sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia's conduct of international relations.

List of contents

Chapter 1 "Rethinking How Historically Exceptional Russia Has Been"
Raymond Taras
Chapter 2 "Beyond the Core: Conceptualising Russia's Hybrid Exceptionalism in Times of War"
Kevork Oskanian
Chapter 3 "Mission Narrative in Russian Foreign Policy. The Comparative Perspective"
Alicja Curanovi¿
Chapter 4 "Squaring the Circle: Legitimizing the Putin Regime after February 24, 2022"
Bo Petersson
Chapter 5 "Exception and Analogical Reasoning in Ukrainian and Russian Political Discourses"
Yulia Kurnyshova and Andrey Makarychev
Chapter 6 "Messianic Discourses and the Ideology of Putinism"
Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 7 "Human Rights and the Exceptionalism of Russian Law and Politics
Mikhail Antonov
Chapter 8 "The Emergence of Contending Universalisms: Russian and American Exceptionalist
Diplomacy 1917-1918"
Molly O'Neal
Chapter 9 "Russia's Exceptional Role in Managing Kazakhstan's Postcolonial Identity"
Vera Grantseva Ageeva
Chapter 10 "The Soviet Federative State: Its Exceptional Formation - and Dismemberment"
David Lane

About the author

Raymond Taras is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University, USA

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Taras
• Assisted by: Taras Raymond (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032612027
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3261202-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, International Relations, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, Russia;Politics;International Politics;Foreign Policy;War