Uncanny Allies: Russia and Belarus on the Edge, 2012-2024 by Nilsson, Rasmus

Uncanny Allies: Russia and Belarus on the Edge, 2012-2024

This book challenges widespread academic and media claims that Russia and Belarus are unwavering allies or that...
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Author: Rasmus Nilsson
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Language: English
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Uncanny Allies: Russia and Belarus on the Edge, 2012-2024 by Nilsson, Rasmus

Uncanny Allies: Russia and Belarus on the Edge, 2012-2024

€93,27

Uncanny Allies: Russia and Belarus on the Edge, 2012-2024

€93,27
Author: Rasmus Nilsson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This book challenges widespread academic and media claims that Russia and Belarus are unwavering allies or that Russia has unquestioned control over Belarus. Instead, Belarus plays at least four different roles within Russian foreign policy. First, Belarus is sometimes a conduit for Russian power projection towards Western enemies. Second, Belarus is sometimes a supporter in Russian attempts to centralize the post-Soviet space around itself. Third, Belarus is sometimes itself an object of Russian economic ambition or even greed. Fourth, however, Belarus also presents a source of danger and vulnerability to Russian physical and, perhaps more importantly, ontological security. Many scholars have pointed out the historical and contemporary importance of Ukraine for Russian self-understanding and external projection. Belarus, too, has such importance. Whether it be as a millennium-old "grey zone" between Russia and what it saw as its ideological and military enemies, or whether it be as the place where the "most perfect" Soviet republic was created, the Belarusian lands today present themselves to Russia simultaneously as open to the passage of alien subversive influences and as a place claiming to be the real heir to Soviet victory and to Slavic purity - both mantles otherwise claimed by Russia.

Author: Rasmus Nilsson
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Published: 12/17/2024
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9783838212883

About the Author

Dr Rasmus Nilsson is Lecturer (teaching) in Russian Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London. In 2019, he won UCL's Student Choice Award for Inspiring Teaching Delivery. He has previously worked at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University. Dr Nilsson has contributed chapters to, among others, The Territories of the Russian Federation (Routledge 2023), Handbook of Russian Politics and Society (Routledge 2023), and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia (Routledge 2024), as well as articles to, among other periodicals, Europe-Asia Studies, and Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.


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