p-ISSN 2956-2589, e-ISSN 2956-2570
Ivan Kurilla
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Russia and the US in the Mirrors of Academic Research
25 May 2021
Ivan Kurilla
The article offers a comparative analysis of Russian and American scholarship on each other states and society. The author overviews the study of US history in Russia, the study of Russian history in the US, the study of the history of Russian–American relations, and the discourse of each country on the contemporary political reality in the other. Both Russian and the US research agendas demonstrated some degree of dependence of the other country’s policies, they were engaged in a limited dialogue, but most heavily they were influenced by domestic politics. The author claims also that the image of Russia in the United States and the image of America in Russia play important roles in the home debates making it difficult to separate foreign policy from domestic disputes. Such a vantage point calls for the use of the social constructivist approach to the study of the US – Russian relations with its heavier focus on identity construction and nation-building. Key words: US – Russian relations, US History, Russian History, Study of the Other, Enemy Studies, Area Studies, Constructivism in IR
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