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Author Biography
Dogachan Dagi recently completed his PhD in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick and is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations at Baskent University in Ankara. His research focuses on international security, migration, and Russian politics. His other research articles have appeared in Comparative Strategy, The World Today, European Foreign Affairs Review, and Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.18.1.2322
Subject Area Keywords
Identity, Russia, Security policy, Strategy
Abstract
The importance of narratives in the constitution of Russian strategic culture has been largely neglected. This is due to the common assumption that Russian strategic culture is out there, historically determined, and constant from the Russian Empire through the Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia. This article argues that Russian strategic culture is not ‘etched in stone,’ but a dynamic ‘context’ in the making of which stories told about the past and the present, the Russian self and its others, threats and aspirations play a constitutive role. As such, this article demonstrates how Russian strategic culture is being continuously reconstructed by the Kremlin’s discursive practices in which a set of historical, civilizational, and ideological narratives about the Russian self and the West as a threat forms a particular cultural context reproducing the parameters of the prevailing Russian strategic culture.
Recommended Citation
Dagi, Dogachan. "Reconstructing Russian Strategic Culture: Narratives, Othering, and the West." Journal of Strategic Security 18, no. 1 (2025)
: 21-35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.18.1.2322
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