Open AccessRussia living from its past
Author(s) -
Isabela de Andrade Gama
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ante portas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2353-6306
DOI - 10.33674/2201911
Subject(s) - assertiveness , power (physics) , state (computer science) , great power , political science , territorial integrity , identity (music) , political economy , foreign policy , perception , soviet union , development economics , politics , sociology , law , psychology , social psychology , economics , sovereignty , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , computer science , acoustics
Since the end of the Cold War Russia has been treated as a defeated state.Western countries usually perceive Russia not only as a defeated state but alsorelating it to Soviet Union. Beyond that the West has Orientalized Russia,segregating it from the “western club” of developed states. But Russia’srecovery from the collapse of the 90’s made it more assertive towards theWest. It’s proposed here that this assertiveness is due to it’s orientalization,it’s inferior status perceived by the West. The inferior perception by the Westhas triggered a process of identity’s reconstruction which will be analyzedthrough a perspective of ontological security. The more Russia has it’s greatpower status denied, the more aggressive it becomes regarding it’s foreignpolicy. As the international hierarchy continues to treat Russia as that of“behind” the modern states, and the more it feels marginalized, it will doubledown on efforts to regain its great power status it will have to dispose power.Russia’s ontological insecurity might lead it to a path of aggressiveness.