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Russia and the Liberal World Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2018

Anne L. Clunan
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Abstract

While Russian leaders are clearly dissatisfied with the United States and the European Union, they are not inherently opposed to a liberal world order. The question of Russia's desire to change a liberal international order hangs on the type of liberalism embedded in that order. Despite some calls from within for it to create a new, post-liberal order premised on conservative nationalism and geopolitics, Russia is unlikely to fare well in such a world.

Keywords

Russialiberalisminternational ordergreat powersglobalizationnationalism
Type
Roundtable: Rising Powers and the International Order
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 32 , Special Issue 1: Rising Powers and the International Order , Spring 2018 , pp. 45 - 59
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2018 

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NOTES

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