title: Constructing Narratives about the Taliban by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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metadata.value: Golubev, Konstantin A.
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metadata.value: 2019-10-17T19:33:11Z
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metadata.value: 2019-10-17T19:33:11Z
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metadata.value: 2019-06
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metadata.value: Golubev K. A. Constructing Narratives about the Taliban by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, pp. 229– 241.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu06.2019.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16378
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metadata.value: The paper focuses on the specifics of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s rhetoric about the Taliban Movement during the period between 1999 and 2018. Using a morphological approach to analysis of the narratives produced by the Ministry, it is demonstrated that the main characters within those narratives had gone through significant metamorphoses over the studied period, echoing the shifts in Russia’s self-identification and the latter’s perception of the relevant actors, as well as in its policy towards Afghanistan. Thus, Russia no longer seeks the approval of the international community, nor does it speak like a partner of the West. Rather it tends to act alone by taking the initiative of bringing the Afghan warring parties together at the negotiating table in Moscow. Russia’s representation of the Taliban Movement went a full circle from “a real force existing in Afghanistan” to “a criminal force” that has no legitimacy and back to “an integral element of the Afghan society” with whom seeking a peaceful reconciliation is deemed necessary. Its representation of the United States, on the contrary, changed from “ally” to “foe.” Given that the Russian policy towards Afghanistan is heavily dependent on Russia’s relationship with the United States of America, and if the downward spiral of that relationship continues, one should expect it manifest in a more overt Russian support for the Afghan opposition, resulting in an indirect war by proxy between the two powers in Afghanistan.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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metadata.value: Taliban
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metadata.value: narrative construction
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metadata.value: Constructing Narratives about the Taliban by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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metadata.value: Article
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