The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

ISBN-13: 9780367587383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Glenn Diesen

Opis

This book explores the cooperation and competition between Western and Russian civilisation and the rise of anti-establishment political forces both contesting the international liberal order and expressing the desire for closer relations with Russia.

Spis treści

Introduction

Theorising Civilisations

Chapter 1 – Civilisations Balanced Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Chapter 2 – The Cyclical Rise, Decline and Rebirth of Civilisations

Rise and Fall of Political Liberalism

Chapter 3 – Western Civilisation as an Amalgam of Political Liberalism and Nationhood

Chapter 4 – The Postmodernist Graveyard of Western Civilisation

Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism

Chapter 5 – The Rise of Western Geoeconomics as the Tool for Neo-Gesellschaft

Chapter 6 – Unconstrained Economic Liberalism: Death of Community and Society

Resurgence of Russia: Neomodernism and Geoeconomics

Chapter 7 – The Geography of Russia’s Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Chapter 8 – Russia’s Eurasian Resurgence: Neomodernism and Geoeconomics

Chapter 9 – The Rise of ‘Populists’ in the West and Their Affinity Towards Russia

Conclusion: Cooperation and Competition in the Post-Western World

O autorze

Dr Glenn Diesen is Visiting Scholar at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and Adjunct Research Fellow at Western Sydney University. Dr Diesen specialises in Russia's approach to European and Eurasian integration, and the dynamics between the two. This includes central topics such as ideology, energy and geoeconomics. He is the author of EU and NATO Relations with Russia (Routledge, 2015) and Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia (Routledge, 2017).