tensions between the United States and Russia are at their highest point since the end of Cold War. In this context, the … Russia’s great power narrative. Using constructivists’ arguments of the international relations theory, we will examine this … idea and will observe how this social construct helps Russia to strengthen its great power and offers a new interpretation …

The key point is about Russia, old and new, being a counterrevolutionary power: Russia's post- Napoleonic War and … moreover post-1848 policy was counterrevolutionary abroad and conservative, even when reformist, at home, as is Russia … intervention, e.g. in Syria, are Soviet. The main difference as compared to both, Tsarist Russian and Soviet, is Russia's lack of a …