Eternal Russia & the shining city upon a hill: a comparative analysis of US and Russia’s geopolitical codes
Rocchi, Marcello (A.A. 2022/2023) Eternal Russia & the shining city upon a hill: a comparative analysis of US and Russia’s geopolitical codes. Tesi di Laurea in Demography and social challenges, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Alfonso Giordano, pp. 117. [Master's Degree Thesis]
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Abstract/Index
Defining a geopolitical model. What is geopolitics. Freewilll & determinism. “Love of one’s own” & the importance of place. Structural drivers: geography, demography and technology. Human agency: fear, self-interest and honour. Imaginative geography. Beyond geographical determinism and rational theory. Structural drivers of Russian foreign policy. A declining Russian demography. Strategic imperatives of Russian geography. Resource endowments and Russian geo-economics. Russia’s propensity for conflict. Russia’s geopolitical orientation. Degree of recognition. Geopolitical representation of Russia. Russia’s representation of the self. Russian geopolitical agents. Kozyrev and the liberal internationalist moment. Primakov doctrine, multipolarity and the statist turn. The conservative turn and Russia’s civilizational crafting. Russkiy mir. Greater Eurasia. Structural drivers of US foreign policy. Strategic imperatives of US geography. US demographic exceptionalism. US propensity for conflict. Resource endowments and US geo-economics. Degree of recognition. US geopolitical orientation. A geopolitical representation of the United States of America. US spatialization of international politics. Policing the Western hemisphere: a spatially bounded manifest destiny-1776-1919. The birth of US supremacy-CFR esponse to the 1940 invasion of France. The cold war: a strategically sound aberration–solarium exercise. The end of history. The US is lesss exceptional.
References
Bibliografia: pp. 90-108.
| Thesis Type: | Master's Degree Thesis |
|---|---|
| Institution: | Luiss Guido Carli |
| Degree Program: | Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52) |
| Chair: | Demography and social challenges |
| Thesis Supervisor: | Giordano, Alfonso |
| Thesis Co-Supervisor: | Alegi, Gregory |
| Academic Year: | 2022/2023 |
| Session: | Autumn |
| Deposited by: | Alessandro Perfetti |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2024 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2024 13:17 |
| URI: | https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/38714 |
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