BMET 27A04 - Russia Foreign Policy: A decolonizing perspective

BMET 27A04 · Semestre d'automne 2026-2027

Langue d'enseignement
English
Type d'enseignement
Atelier
Nombre d'heures
24
Crédits
3

Informations

Descriptif

The course proposes a critical analysis of the Russian foreign policy as an imperial and militarized power. The course deploys the topics of Russia’s policy “near abroad”, Russo-Ukrainian war, Russian military presence in Middle East, and Africa, relations with China, NATO, EU, and U.S., Russia’s climate policy, with the concepts of “internal colonization”, “petrostate”, “Russian World”, “sovereign democracy”, “biopolitical empire”, “nuclear orthodoxy”, “schizofascism” and many others. The course aims at attentive critical reading the pro-Kremlin narratives and their consequent deconstruction from the decolonial perspective of IR, political philosophy, history, sociology and cultural studies.

Lectures

Lectures principales 1

  1. Adamsky, Dima. Russian nuclear orthodoxy : religion, politics, and strategy. Stanford, California : Stanford University press. 2019.

Lectures secondaires 4

  1. Alexander Etkind. Nature's evil: a cultural history of natural resources, Cambridge, UK and Medford, USA, Polity Press New Russian Thought series, 2021

  2. Applebaum, Anne. Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world. London : Allen Lane. 2024.

  3. Beck, Plokhii, Snyder, et al. Understanding Ukraine: Tracing the Roots of Terror and Violence with a foreword by Dmytro Kuleba. [s.l.] : Ibidem Press. 2023.

  4. Byford, Andy, Connor Doak, et Stephen Hutchings. « Decolonizing the Transnational, Transnationalizing the Decolonial: Russian Studies at the Crossroads », Forum for modern language studies. 2024, vol.60 no 3. p. 339‑357.

Unités pédagogiques

N° d'UPType d'UP Unités pédagogiquesEnseignants Nombre d'heuresCrédits
18018Atelier Russia Foreign Policy: A decolonizing perspective Alexandra YATSYK243

Enseignants

  • Alexandra YATSYK

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Contacts et ressources

Contact pédagogique
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