Russia's World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West

The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and autocracy. Russia's World Order explains that in Russian eyes, the conflict is about something very different: it is a fight between two incompatible visions of where history is leading.



Russia's World Order describes the civilizational theory that has come to dominate Russian official discourse, and that has come to dominate...