BISA 2022 Conference (face-to-face)

Narratives, Discourses and Developments in Contemporary Russian Security

15 Jun 2022, 09:00

1h 30m

Collingwood, Civic Centre

Panel Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group

Description

This panel examines contemporary Russian discourse and narratives on security, ranging from an analysis of Russia and China as global security actors, to Russian narratives on security in and around Afghanistan and Russian approaches to conflict management using the example of Nagorno-Karabakh. Further papers discuss the centrality of democratization and human rights discourses in the US-Russia security relationship and the militarization of Russian society.

Subcontributions

• Anxiety and identity: the issue of Russian democracy and human rights in the 21st century Russia-US relationship ‘
• Russian conflict management in Nagorno-Karabakh
• Russia and China: the rise of global security actors. Domestic-international dynamics.
• Militarising through anxiety: Russian historical textbooks in the 1990s.’
• Spatial and scalar politics – Russia’s narratives and practices towards the security crisis in Afghanistan.’