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Studying Russia and its Wars
Academic Stocktaking in Times of Insecurity
Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine took by surprise not only politicians in many countries, but also experts who, for many years after the end of the Cold War, were confident of the growing mutual interdependence between Russian and European economies, and in the changing function of borders - from dividing to connecting. Most scholars have not only overlooked the aggressive potential inherent in the seemingly innocent calls for multipolarity carried out by the Russian leadership. This book discusses how the current war in Ukraine makes the scholarly community reconsider previous assumptions of Russiaâs domestic regime and security policies, and think of novel approaches to study the Russia-produced insecurities. This edited volume calls for a scholarly audit of the academic legacy that has prevented most researchers and public intellectuals from not only predicting, but also considering as a serious possibility the full-scale war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine.
Contributors are: Françoise Daucé, Dinissa Duvanova, Vladimir Gelman, Ivan Gomza, Sanshiro Hosaka, Ailaksei Kazharski, Ivan U. KÅyszcz, Yulia Kurnyshova, Andrey Makarychev, Katalin Miklóssy, Anselm Schmidt, and Kirill Shamiev.
Contributors are: Françoise Daucé, Dinissa Duvanova, Vladimir Gelman, Ivan Gomza, Sanshiro Hosaka, Ailaksei Kazharski, Ivan U. KÅyszcz, Yulia Kurnyshova, Andrey Makarychev, Katalin Miklóssy, Anselm Schmidt, and Kirill Shamiev.
Yuliia Kurnyshova is a researcher at the University of Helsinki and an affiliated researcher at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Her current academic studies examine geopolitical and security dimensions of Russia's war against Ukraine, with particular emphasis on national agency, security discourse, and advanced applications of securitization theory.
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europeâs Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and co-authored five monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020), Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (Lexington Books, 2023) and Biopower in Putinâs Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives (CEU Press, 2024).
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europeâs Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and co-authored five monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020), Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (Lexington Books, 2023) and Biopower in Putinâs Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives (CEU Press, 2024).
1 Studying Russiaâs Wars
An Analytical Introduction
âYulia Kurnyshova and Andrey Makarychev
2 New Approaches to Study Russiaâs Foreign Policy
Role of Great Power Ideology and Nested Asymmetric Relations
âIvan Gomza
3 A Strong Weak State, or the Central Paradox of Russian State-Building
âDinissa Duvanova
4 Against the Grain
Research on Russian Domestic Politics after February 2022
âVladimir Gelâman
5 A New Corporeal Order
Russia Between Biopower and Necropolitics
âAndrey Makarychev
6 Narratives on Civilization and Barbarity During the War in Ukraine
âYulia Kurnyshova
7 Towards Decentring Comparisons: Overcoming the Uniqueness Myth in Russian Studies
âAliaksei Kazharski
8 Knowledge Production in Crisis
Constraints on Academic Freedom in Finland, Hungary, and Poland
âKatalin Miklóssy
9 Sociology Facing Wartime Russia
A Pragmatic Gaze on a Scientific Dilemma
âFrançoise Daucé
10 Chekhovâs Gun
Security Services and Blind Spot of Russia Studies
âKirill Shamiev
11 The Limits of âRussian IRâ
Challenges for a Particularistic International Relations Field
âIvan U. KÅyszcz
12 Beyond the Ivory Tower
Countering Simplistic Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War with Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
âAnselm Schmidt and Sanshiro Hosaka
Index
An Analytical Introduction
âYulia Kurnyshova and Andrey Makarychev
2 New Approaches to Study Russiaâs Foreign Policy
Role of Great Power Ideology and Nested Asymmetric Relations
âIvan Gomza
3 A Strong Weak State, or the Central Paradox of Russian State-Building
âDinissa Duvanova
4 Against the Grain
Research on Russian Domestic Politics after February 2022
âVladimir Gelâman
5 A New Corporeal Order
Russia Between Biopower and Necropolitics
âAndrey Makarychev
6 Narratives on Civilization and Barbarity During the War in Ukraine
âYulia Kurnyshova
7 Towards Decentring Comparisons: Overcoming the Uniqueness Myth in Russian Studies
âAliaksei Kazharski
8 Knowledge Production in Crisis
Constraints on Academic Freedom in Finland, Hungary, and Poland
âKatalin Miklóssy
9 Sociology Facing Wartime Russia
A Pragmatic Gaze on a Scientific Dilemma
âFrançoise Daucé
10 Chekhovâs Gun
Security Services and Blind Spot of Russia Studies
âKirill Shamiev
11 The Limits of âRussian IRâ
Challenges for a Particularistic International Relations Field
âIvan U. KÅyszcz
12 Beyond the Ivory Tower
Countering Simplistic Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War with Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
âAnselm Schmidt and Sanshiro Hosaka
Index
This book will especially interest specialists in international relations and security studies, foreign policy experts and advisers, and graduate and post-graduate students of world and comparative politics.