eprintid: 10061719 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/17/19 datestamp: 2022-01-28 14:04:56 lastmod: 2022-01-28 14:06:30 status_changed: 2022-01-28 14:04:56 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Snetkov, Aglaya title: Negotiating the global security dilemma: Interpreting Russia’s security agenda ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: D92 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: With the proliferation of discussion about global order change in recent years, and accompanying predictions about a greater role for non-Western great powers, or the so-called rising powers, in questions of global governance and security (Alexandroff and Cooper 2010; Ikenberry and Wright 2008; Young 2010; Schweller 2011; Gu et al. 2008; Drezner 2007; Ikenberry 2008), the field of Security Studies is increasingly acknowledging that it is no longer sufficient to examine questions of global security primarily or exclusively through the experience of the West. There is growing recognition that it is empirically necessary to take into account the positions, views and interests of these nonWestern powers in study of international affairs (Zakaria 2008; Glosny 2009; Kappell 2011; Layne 2009; Whitman 2010; Flemes 2011). In turn, theoretical models and concepts should also take into account the contexts and actors within non-Western contexts (Bilgin 2010). The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the way in which one such non-Western power, Russia, has sought to conceptualize and make sense of the global security agenda in the post-Cold War era. Within the extensive body of literature assessing the directions, interests and priorities of contemporary Russian security policy, a bias for positivist realist perspectives continues to exist (see Wegren 2003; Kanet 2005). Indeed, many scholars have sought to characterize the Putin regime as ideologically promoting a more aggressive and largely anti-Western position in global security matters (Blank 2002). However, the interpretivist framework adopted here departs from existing constructivist literature on Russia’s foreign and security policy, which tends to focus primarily on Russia’s identity politics as the driving factor behind the evolution of Russia’s view of itself and the world (see Neumann 2008; Morozov 2008; Tsygankov 2005, 2007; Lomagin 2007; Kassianova 2001; Hopf 2005; Clunan 2009). Instead, as already outlined in Chapter 1 of the book, rather than focusing primarily on concepts such as language, identity, culture or ideas, the interpretivist perspective used here centres primarily on recapturing actors’ beliefs and meanings within their own contexts, and on investigating the process by which ideas and beliefs evolve across time, through the notion of traditions and dilemmas and the principle of ‘situated agency’ (Bevir and Rhodes 2006; Bevir et al. 2013). date: 2014 date_type: published publisher: Routledge official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203713464 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1601939 doi: 10.4324/9780203713464 isbn_13: 9781134445011 lyricists_name: Snetkov, Aglaya lyricists_id: ASNET03 actors_name: Snetkov, Aglaya actors_id: ASNET03 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics place_of_pub: Abingdon, UK pagerange: 92-106 isbn: 1134445016 book_title: Interpreting Global Security editors_name: Bevir, M editors_name: Daddow, O editors_name: Hall, I citation: Snetkov, Aglaya; (2014) Negotiating the global security dilemma: Interpreting Russia’s security agenda. In: Bevir, M and Daddow, O and Hall, I, (eds.) Interpreting Global Security. (pp. 92-106). Routledge: Abingdon, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061719/3/Snetkov_Negotiating%20the%20global%20security%20dilemma%20-%20interpreting%20Russia%E2%80%99s%20security%20agenda_chapter_AAM.pdf