title: The geopolitical origins of Russian strategic culture and its enlightenment in China
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metadata.value: Qin, Lizhi
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-08T10:30:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-08T10:30:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Qin Lizhi. The geopolitical origins of Russian strategic culture and its enlightenment in China. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2022, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 367– 389. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2022.402
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2022.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39065
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The main challenge for Russia in the post-Cold War era is that the geographical space available
  for strategic autonomy has been greatly compressed. Due to the checks and balances of Western
  powers, the security panic of neighboring countries, and the decline of its own strength
  after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it is difficult to maintain the Strategic control
  model. Russia is torn between imperial historical traditions and nation-state strategic narratives.
  Will Russia return to the imperial age? The investigation of the geopolitical mechanism
  of Russian strategic culture is helpful to study and judge its regular behavior pattern. Continental
  identity, flanking position, and terrestrial claim tradition are three variables which have
  shaped Russia’s strategic culture. At the same time, the pursuit of sea power, the yearning for
  modernization in the heartland, and the wise shrinking of tough external forces have verified
  the logic that Russia’s strategic culture will be adjust dynamically with the change of relative
  power status and strategic environment. Russian strategic culture shapes strategic motivation
  dominated by fear and exerts indirect and nonlinear influence on strategic behavior including
  strategic intention. Risk aversion/risk-taking, the two decision-making preferences for dealing
  with geopolitical risks, are caused by differences in the degree of fear of power status and
  the external environment. Through the historical practice of Russian strategic culture investigation,
  the author believes that: if the current and future development trends show a negative
  expected trend, then Russia will make necessary revisions to the existing historical experience
  to suit the current strategic situation. The process-tracking study of Russian imperial history
  since Peter the Great also verifies the theoretical inferences of this study from case studies.
  The study of Russian strategic culture will help to promote the deepening and expansion of
  cooperation between China and Russia. Although the cooperation between the two countries
  started from the geopolitical pressure of the global strategic offensive of the United States, the
  beneficial dialogue and communication at the strategic and cultural level can transcend the
  historical normalcy of the cooperation between the two countries forced by the external geopolitical
  threats and shape the strategic stability of China and Russia.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This paper is supported by the General project of the National Social Science Foundation of 2021:
  “A Study on the Anti-containment Strategy of Emerging Countries in the Context of Bipolar Competition”
  (project no. 21BGJ068).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 15; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: geopolitics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: strategic culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sea power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: land power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The geopolitical origins of Russian strategic culture and its enlightenment in China
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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