Resumo: O artigo analisa o papel da vitória União Soviética na Grande Guerra Patriótica atual política de memória do Estado russo. recurso à tem sido uma tática amplamente utilizada para obter coesão social e em torno Vladimir Putin. Ao mesmo tempo que a sociedade russa se fragmenta socialmente função das dificuldades enfrentadas pelo país, sobre torna-se, cada vez mais, um fator aglutinador au...

The central normative concern of this paper is the prospects of global democracy, examined from the point of view of poststructuralist theory. A particular empirical focus is on the recent Russian debate about democracy, sovereignty and relations with the West. In the first section I outline a poststructuralist approach to this notion, based mostly on the neo-Gramscian theory of discourse devel...

Peacefully sheltered in Canada’s Rocky Mountain foothills, Kananaskis seemed far distant from the menace of terrorism or nuclear calamity. But the G-8 summit of 2002 marked a potentially important advance in cooperative threat reduction (CTR) in Russia—and signaled a dramatic expansion in the scale of Canada’s own CTR engagement. In truth, the setting was fitting. Canadian participation in CTR ...

Kurzfassung Die vier Kanzlerschaften von Angela Merkel (2005–2021) stehen in der Tradition deutscher Russlandpolitik. Politik Partnerschaft hatte während ergebnisoffenen Transformation Russlands den 1990er Jahren ihre Berechtigung. Sie verlor aber mit dem Regime, das Putin repräsentierte, Grundlage. Ein Wandel deutschen blieb allerdings aus, weil die beteiligten Politiker ihr Selbstbild und Wir...