The Construction of Thought about the International in Russia: identities, political-pragmatic projects, and the West

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira Secches, Daniela
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Bernardes, Marina, Diniz Rocha, Pedro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Carta Internacional (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.cartainternacional.abri.org.br/Carta/article/view/1000

In order to understand the development of disciplinary International Relations (IR) during the 20th century it is important to consider the sociopolitical reality that compose the context in which the discipline was built. What is particularly true for Russia, where IR was coupled with competing national projects that aimed to imitate the Western “other”, or counteract it. Having said that, the main goal of this article is to understand the contemporary framework of International Relations schools of thought in Russia. To do so it will discuss concepts from sociology of knowledge and constructivism, applied to IR from the idea of geo cultural epistemologies. A Matrix analysis will be the method used to compare and categorize the schools of thought extracted from the specialized literature,and by doing so understand the impact of distinctive sociopolitical contexts over Russian IR. The article concludes that disciplinary International Relations in Russia is embedded with identity trends and political-pragmatic projects that move around the Western element in order to imitate it, or oppose it.