Papers by Elena Chebankova
Europe-Asia Studies, Feb 19, 2007
This article provides an analysis of the institutional mechanisms that are required to ensure the... more This article provides an analysis of the institutional mechanisms that are required to ensure the effective functioning of federalism in Russian politics. A common contention in the literature on federalism is that, in addition to fundamental requirements such as the constitutionally defined division of powers between the federation and its constituent units, and the supremacy of the federal constitution, some
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Routledge eBooks, Aug 26, 2021
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Post-soviet Affairs, Jul 1, 2012
ABSTRACT A political scientist examines contemporary Russian debates about multiculturalism. A ca... more ABSTRACT A political scientist examines contemporary Russian debates about multiculturalism. A categorization of procedural and substantive approaches in Western theory and practice is presented. Russian approaches are contrasted with Western ones along both procedural and substantive dimensions. Special attention is paid to discussions of the concept of "tolerance." Evidence is drawn largely from debates among contemporary Russian academics, journalists, and politicians.
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Полис, 2021
The current world order is undergoing a profound change in its structure, in the composition of t... more The current world order is undergoing a profound change in its structure, in the composition of the leading participants, and in the socio-cultural discourse that buttresses the political evolution of international relations. Two factors are essential to understand this process. First, several new states, or groups of states, entered the league of the leading world powers and began to exert a significant influence over global politics. Analysts often consider these players as civilizations, in that many such states aspire to proposing an alternative spiritual, cultural, political, and even economic developmental model. Second, the West and its followers began to experience a significant civilizational transformation at the socio-political and socio-cultural levels, placing such countries at a crossroad that could determine their existential future. Contextual transformations of this magnitude must always deploy ideology to legitimize ongoing political change, because ideology can question the prevailing conventions of the age to reflect fundamental shifts in society. From this point of view, the arrival of civilizations in the contemporary narrative of international relations invariably involves ideological doctrines that legitimize this process. This paper examines the emergent ideology of civilizational discourse, focusing on its central tenets, and discusses the political shifts that such an ideology seeks to justify.
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Europe-Asia Studies, Feb 7, 2015
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Полис, May 1, 2023
The ongoing turbulence in global politics has been accompanied by calls to shift the current orde... more The ongoing turbulence in global politics has been accompanied by calls to shift the current order of international relations from a rules-based world towards a multipolar system rooted in international law. Political leaders and commentators, primarily of Russian origin, have often referred to those initiatives as a moral revolution in the current world order. This paper examines the theological and philosophical background behind the ideas that support such a change. The discussion argues that these proposals, though they sound revolutionary, echo the Abrahamic principles of international dialogue drafted by medieval Christian theologians, Reformation thinkers, and Jewish and Islamic religious philosophers. The account stresses that contemporary adherents of the replacement of the rules-based world do not openly refer to religious doctrines. However, the core tenets of the suggested reforms align well with those earlier ethical principles. This conclusion is purely scholarly and contributes to the history of ideas.
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The volume discusses the eight years of Russia's federal reforms conducted by Vladimir Putin.
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Полис, 2021
This paper examines the origins, nature, and potential outcomes of the global crisis induced by t... more This paper examines the origins, nature, and potential outcomes of the global crisis induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors argue that the crisis has been animated by the two most important groups of factors that have been simmering in the world‘s economic and political system during the past six decades and have been accelerated by the pandemic. First, the dynamic of the Covid-19 crisis illuminated the existing challenges of the contemporary capitalist system, which is generally legitimated via the instruments of moral panic and media manipulation. Each consecutive crisis of capitalism ends with the redistribution of power resources to some groups of participants. Second, the Covid-19 crisis has been taking place within the conditions of a systemic and ideological struggle between two global elite factions that harbour drastically different approaches to the changing world order and have different politico-economic goals and intentions. The authors will argue that the crisis will not change the world drastically, yet it will amplify these ongoing tensions, illuminate them to many general observers, and deepen the already-existing systemic instability.
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East European Politics, Dec 1, 2012
Which theoretical paradigm should we use to discuss the relationship between the state and civil ... more Which theoretical paradigm should we use to discuss the relationship between the state and civil society in Russia? Academic literature distinguishes two principal approaches to this problem: the East European political tradition, which treats the state and civil society in antagonistic terms; and the West European and Anglo-American strand, which focuses on co-operation between the two entities. A nuanced study of modern Russia indicates that there are areas of successful state–civil society co-operation, as well as intense struggles between the two entities for political and cultural hegemony. Thus, both of these approaches are reasonable, and one should not be deployed at the expense of the other.
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Post-soviet Affairs, Apr 1, 2010
... These shocks result in disillusionment with the public activity that triggered the change. So... more ... These shocks result in disillusionment with the public activity that triggered the change. So the public retrieves the most conservative values from its political toolkit and a private reaction sets in (Alexander, 2000, pp. 4243; see also Swidler, 1998). ...
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Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Dec 1, 2006
Page 1. The Unintended Consequences of Gubernatorial Appointments in Russia, 20056 ELENA CHEBANK... more Page 1. The Unintended Consequences of Gubernatorial Appointments in Russia, 20056 ELENA CHEBANKOVA The cancellation of gubernatorial elections in Russia was aimed at tightening the central grip over the regions ...
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Europe-Asia Studies, Nov 1, 2005
On 13 September 2004 Russia's second president, Vladimir Putin, declared the Kremlin's in... more On 13 September 2004 Russia's second president, Vladimir Putin, declared the Kremlin's intention of recasting the existing regional system by the introduction of an initiative to cancel gubernatori...
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Slavic Review, 2018
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Daedalus, Apr 1, 2017
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Journal of Church and State, Mar 1, 2009
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Post-soviet Affairs, May 28, 2013
A UK-based political scientist presents a systematic analysis of the basic philosophical argument... more A UK-based political scientist presents a systematic analysis of the basic philosophical arguments and intellectual origins of fundamental conservative thought in Russia. Positing that fundamental conservatism seeks to displace interpretations of Western modernity in Russia with a culturally specific Russian version, she then probes more deeply into the methods and tasks of fundamental conservatism, before examining its main theoretical arguments. The fact that such thinking is increasingly prominent in Russia, including within political circles, is noted as a basis for the need to better understand it as a search for new forms of rationality and new forms of citizenship rooted in the Russian sociohistoric context.
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Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Sep 1, 2009
This article discusses the evolution of Russia's civil society during the preside... more This article discusses the evolution of Russia's civil society during the presidency of Vladimir Putin. The paper utilises a complex definitional prism that views civil society in terms of three independent but inextricably interconnected pillars. It examines civil society as a kind of society, a part of society, and as a distinct public sphere as seen in the set of
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