Russia’s New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order

ISBN-13: 9781474454773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 334 str.

David G. (Associate Professor of International Relations in

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Preface; 1. Authoritarianism, Ideology and Order; Understanding Russian Authoritarianism; Order, smuta and the Russian State; Russia as Weimar; Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Order; 2. Carl Schmitt and Russian Conservatism; Carl Schmitt in Moscow; Schmitt in the Academy; Dugin, Schmitt, and Neo-Eurasianist thought; Remizov and the New Conservatives; Normalising Schmitt; 3. Sovereignty and the Exception; The Centrality of Sovereignty; Sovereignty in International Affairs; Discursive sovereignty; Domestic Sovereignty: Deciding on the Exception; The Sovereign Leader; The Sovereign and the Court; Exception, Norms and ‘Manual Control’; The Dual State; 4. Democracy and the People; Putinism and Democracy; The Decline of Parliamentarianism; Constructing a Majority; A majority of values; 5. Defining the Enemy; Russia and its enemies; Constructing the Enemy Discourse; The Enemy Within: The fifth column; Civil society and foreign agents; The End of Consensus; 6. Dualism, Exceptionality and the Rule of Law; Law in Russia; Conceptualising dualism; Politicized justice; Mechanisms of exception; Prokuratura; Security services; Courts and judges; The exception becomes the norm; 7. The Crimean Exception; Crimea: The sovereign decision; Legality as imperialism; Order and orientation; 8. Großraum Thinking in Russian Foreign Policy; A World of Great Spaces; Russia’s Spatial Crisis; Russia’s Spatial Projects; Russia as Hegemonic Power; The Political Idea; Exclusion of Foreign Powers; The new Schmittians; 9. Apocalypse Delayed: Katechontic Thinking in late Putinist Russia; Russian messianism; Russia as contemporary katechon; Katechontic thinking and the Syrian intervention; Conclusion; Bibliography.