UID:
almahu_9949865877002882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351012614
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1351012614
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9781351012638
,
9781351012621
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1351012622
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9781351012607
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1351012606
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1351012630
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9781351012638
Series Statement:
Rethinking asia and international relations
Content:
What explains the rise of populist movements across the West and their affinity towards Russia? UKIP's Brexit victory, Trump's triumph, and the successive elections and referendums in Europe were united by a repudiation of the liberal international order. These new political forces envision the struggle to reproduce and advance Western civilisation to be fought along a patriotism-cosmopolitanism or nationalism-globalism battlefield, in which Russia becomes a partner rather than an adversary. Armed with neomodernism and geoeconomics, Russia has inadvertently taken on a central role in the decay of Western civilisation. 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. Diesen proposes that Western civilisation has reached a critical juncture as modern society (gesellschaft) has overwhelmed and exhausted the traditional community (gemeinschaft) and shows the causes for the decay of Western civilisation and the subsequent impact on cooperation and conflict with Russia. The author also considers whether Russia's international conservativism is authentic and can negate the West's decadence, or if it is merely a shrewd strategy by a rival civilisation also in decay. This volume will be of interest to scholars of international relations, political science, security studies, international political economy, and Russian studies.
Note:
Civilisations balanced between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- The cyclical rise, decline and rebirth of civilisations -- Western civilisation as an amalgam of political liberalism and nationhood -- The postmodernist graveyard of western civilisation -- The rise of western geoeconomics as the tool for neo-Gesellschaft -- Unconstrained economic liberalism : death of community and society -- The geography of Russia's Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- Russia's Eurasian resurgence : neomodernism and geoeconomics -- The rise of "populists" in the West and their affinity towards Russia -- Conclusion : cooperation and competition in the post-western world.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Diesen, Glenn. Decay of western civilisation & resurgence of Russia. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138500327
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781351012638
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351012638
