The Cold Peace: Russo-Western Relations as a Mimetic Cold War

In 1989–1991 the geo-ideological contestation between two blocs was swept away, together with the ideology of civil war and its concomitant Cold War played out on the larger stage. Paradoxically, while the domestic sources of Cold War confrontation have been transcended, its external manifestations remain in the form of a ‘legacy’ geopolitical contest between the dominant hegemonic power (the United States) and a number of potential rising great powers, of which Russia is one. The post-revolutionary era is thus one of a ‘cold peace’. A cold peace is a mimetic cold war. In other words, while a cold war accepts the logic of conflict in the international system and between certain protagonists in particular, a cold peace reproduces the behavioural patterns of a cold war but suppresses acceptance of the logic of behaviour. A cold peace is accompanied by a singular stress on notions of victimhood for some and undigested and bitter victory for others. The perceived victim status of one set of actors provides the seedbed for renewed conflict, while the ‘victory’ of the others cannot be consolidated in some sort of relatively unchallenged post-conflict order. The ‘universalism’ of the victors is now challenged by Russia's neo-revisionist policy, including not so much the defence of Westphalian notions of sovereignty but the espousal of an international system with room for multiple systems (the Schmittean pluriverse)

Turning to the East: Results and Problems

В статье обсуждаются проблемы социально-экономического развития Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Проведен анализ и дана оценка деятельности органов федеральной власти в отношении разработки и реализации планов развития сибирских и дальневосточных территорий. Показано, что происходит необоснованная трансформация основных инструментов развития (распространение идеи ТОРов на всю территорию страны и др.) и затягивание процессов принятия уже подготовленных решений (создание фондов и других институтов развития)The problems of social and economic development of Siberia and the Far East are discusses in article. The analysis and evaluation of the federal government activities in development and implementations of plans for the Siberian and Far Eastern territories development are conducted. The article shows the unjustified transformation of the development basic tools (dissemination of TPD ideas throughout the country and others) and delaying already prepared decision-making processes (funds and other development institutions establishment

Turning to the East: Results and Problems

В статье обсуждаются проблемы социально-экономического развития Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Проведен анализ и дана оценка деятельности органов федеральной власти в отношении разработки и реализации планов развития сибирских и дальневосточных территорий. Показано, что происходит необоснованная трансформация основных инструментов развития (распространение идеи ТОРов на всю территорию страны и др.) и затягивание процессов принятия уже подготовленных решений (создание фондов и других институтов развития)The problems of social and economic development of Siberia and the Far East are discusses in article. The analysis and evaluation of the federal government activities in development and implementations of plans for the Siberian and Far Eastern territories development are conducted. The article shows the unjustified transformation of the development basic tools (dissemination of TPD ideas throughout the country and others) and delaying already prepared decision-making processes (funds and other development institutions establishment