Russia and the Territorial Integrity in the Post-Soviet: New Reality, Old Paradigm
Russia and the Territorial Integrity in the Post-Soviet: New Reality, Old Paradigm

Author(s): Octavian Țîcu
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: IDIS VIITORUL Institutul pentru Dezoltare şi Initiative Sociale
Keywords: Russian neo-imperialism;
Summary/Abstract: Discussioons concerning the revival of the neo-imperial ambitions in the Russian Federation are in stage since the end of “honeymoon” relations between Moscow and West in the mid 1990’s. Belief in an emerging neo-imperial policy is being legitimized by recent actions. A widely recognized stereotype in Russian political thinking, influenced by an awareness of contemporary Russia’s weakness and loss of global power, is “until Russia is leader in its region of the world, it cannot be expected to become a global power.” Thus, self-assertion in the “Near Abroad” has become a substitute for the superpower-status inherited from both the Soviet period and a remoter, pre-revolutionary era.

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