title: The pandemic, Russia, and the West
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metadata.value: Sakwa, Richard
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-20T10:26:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-20T10:26:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Sakwa R. The pandemic, Russia, and the West. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 3–19.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2021.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/28034
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Covid-19 pandemic represented a major event in world history, although its political
  character remains disputed. It is too early to tell what long-term impact the coronavirus will
  have on international affairs, but its immediate results are clear. The article examines the context
  of the pandemic and some of the salient effects, noting that it has acted as an accelerant
  rather than a game changer. The paper then contextualises these changes into the larger pattern
  of Russian foreign policy, noting the way that the pandemic only deepened and in parts
  accelerated existing tendencies and trends. International politics remain trapped between
  post-war patterns in the Atlantic power system and the emergence of new challenges, above
  all the nascent bipolarity between the United States and China. Russia seeks to manoeuvre in
  this new constellation, including by advancing its civilisational autonomy. Instead of introducing
  greater flux into international affairs, the pandemic only confirmed and intensified the
  existing impasse, and the long-anticipated multipolarity remains more of an aspiration than a
  reality. The stasis in international affairs remains in place.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 14; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pandemic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sovereign internationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neo-revisionism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: stasis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liberalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information warfare
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The pandemic, Russia, and the West
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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