Russia’s Security Policy under Putin

Snetkov, Aglaya

doi:10.4324/9780203559390

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“…This approach, notable as a contextual analysis of desecuritization wherein the meaning of the concept crystalizes from within an evolving social practice, tends to remain below the analytical radar of security theorists. While a major criticism against desecuritization has been its lack of conceptual rigour, which renders the concept unwieldy for empirical application (Snetkov, 2015(Snetkov, , 2017, we suggest, by contrast, that desecuritization should be understood, primarily, as a political process and problem. Given its own particular logic, greater conceptual rigour alone will not allow us to resolve these issues Conceptual fiat may, in particular, render concrete practices invisible.…”

Section: Pro-kremlin Trolls: When Tricksters Lose Their Lulzmentioning

confidence: 82%

Neutrollization: Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization

Kurowska

Reshetnikov²

2018

Security Dialogue

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This article considers the significance of trolling for security processes through a contextual analysis of industrialized pro-Kremlin trolling in the Russian blogosphere. The publicity surrounding Russia’s hacking activities in international politics conceals the significance of the domestic trolling culture in Russia and its role in the ‘trolling turn’ in Russia’s foreign policy. We contextually identify the practice of ‘neutrollization’ – a type of localized desecuritization where the regime adopts trolling to prevent being cast as a societal security threat by civil society. Neutrollization relies on counterfeit internet activism, ostensibly originating from the citizenry, that produces political disengagement by breeding radical doubt in a manner that is non-securitizing. Rather than advocating a distinct political agenda, and in contrast to conventional understandings of the operations of propaganda, neutrollization precludes the very possibility of meaning, obviating the need to block the internet in an openly authoritarian manner. It operates by preventing perlocution – that is, the social consequences of the security speech act. This prevention is achieved through the breaking or disrupting of the context in which acts of securitization could possibly materialize, and is made possible by a condition of ‘politics without telos’ that is different from the varieties of depoliticization more familiar in Western societies.

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Section: Pro-kremlin Trolls: When Tricksters Lose Their Lulzmentioning

confidence: 82%

Neutrollization: Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization

Kurowska

Reshetnikov²

2018

Security Dialogue

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“…"Putin saw Russia as a weak state, a state that had lost its glory, but a state that, nonetheless, deserved and was meant to have a place in the great power group" [12] But with Putin"s Foreign policy there has been a resurgence of the cooperation in accordance with the new changes of the modern world.…”

Section: A Shift Towards Modern Soft Power Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Shift from Ideological to Soft Power Cooperation of Russia and African Countries in Arts, Education and Science

Amuhaya¹,

Afolabi²,

Fongang³

2019

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)

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Russia has not colonized any African country, and its relationship with the continent is quite different as compared to other European countries like Britain or France. With the absence of language environment, there has been a need for creating new modern strategies of cooperation especially with President Putin's government shifting from USSR cooperation in education as an ideological strategy to current soft power tool. With a foreign policy of noninterference in domestic affairs of sovereign states Russia is steadily gaining ground in the continent. This article will explore the theory of soft power and analyze how Russia is using it as a tool for expanding its cultural and political influence in Africa through cooperation in arts education and science. It will also examine the changes from the USSR time to present Russian federation while exploring its foreign policy in relation to Africa, and lastly conclude with observations made and prospects.

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“…89 both the larger foreign policy context of 'setting limits to the West' and Putin's wider domestic political project for Russia. 90 The upsurge of military activity in foreign policy is, to a great extent, the embodiment of a reactionary response to both the internal and external setbacks Russia has faced, which have prompted Russia's leadership to adopt a 'crisis mode' that legitimizes hard measures in foreign and domestic policy-making. 91 Significant among such setbacks are the increasing role of the EU in the post-Soviet space and the domestic discontent following Putin's decision to apply for a third presidential term.…”

Section: Russia's Turn To Geopoliticsmentioning

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Geopolitics versus geoeconomics: the case of Russia's geostrategy and its effects on the EU

Wigell

Vihma

2016

International Affairs

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Geopolitics and geoeconomics are often addressed together, with the latter seen as a sub‐variant of the former. This article shows the usefulness of differentiating them at a conceptual level. By juxtaposing traditional geopolitics and geoeconomics, we suggest that they have remarkably different qualities and implications for their targets, on both national and international levels. Importantly, these include the formation of alliances, and whether they are driven by balancing, bandwagoning or underbalancing dynamics. An analysis of Russia's shifting geostrategy towards Europe shows these differences in practice. Russian geoeconomics has long been successful as a ‘wedge strategy’, dividing the EU. As a result, the EU has underbalanced and its Russia policies have been incoherent. The observable tendencies in 2014–15 towards a more coherent European approach can be explained by the changing emphasis in Russia's geostrategy. Russia's turn to geopolitics works as a centripetal force, causing a relative increase in EU unity. Centripetal tendencies due to heightened threat perception can be observed in the economic sanctions, emerging German leadership in EU foreign policy, and discussion on energy union. The analysis calls for more attention to the way strategic choices—geopolitics versus geoeconomics—affect the coherence of threatened states and alliance patterns.

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Russia’s Security Policy under Putin

Cited by 18 publications

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Neutrollization: Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization

Neutrollization: Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization

A Shift from Ideological to Soft Power Cooperation of Russia and African Countries in Arts, Education and Science

Geopolitics versus geoeconomics: the case of Russia's geostrategy and its effects on the EU

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