Russia and International Terrorism: Global Challenge-National Response?

Julie Wilhelmsen

Chapter 5 in Russia’s Encounter with Globalization, 2011, pp 97-133 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Security issues have always been at the core of Russian and Soviet policy discourse and policymaking. The — unachievable — quest for absolute security has been a strong and recurrent feature of Russian and Soviet foreign policy, making the identification of key security challenges a central part of official discourse. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, a certain vacuum was evident in the Russian security discourse, in the sense that no distinct external enemy was articulated. This vacuum, despite several relapses back to the West as a security challenge, was only properly filled by ‘international terrorism’ in the late 1990s.

Keywords: International Terrorism; Security Challenge; Terrorist Threat; Shanghai Cooperation Organization; Soviet Foreign Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230347571_5

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