Add to ORKGRussia has been accused of revisionism in its foreign policy, understood as an effort to undermine a ‘rules-based’ international order. This essay analyses the normative dimension of such revisionism. It examines Russian legal discourse in the period 2014–2019, based on case studies of Russian interventions in Ukraine and Syria. It finds little evidence of sustained Russian legal revisionism—an effort to modify international law—despite Russian assertion of legal exceptionalism in the CIS region. It confirms previous research that Russia has deployed legal rhetoric strategically and instrumentally. Moscow understands it cannot easily gain international support for new rules, yet still seems to aspire to revise the structure of regional powe...
This paper seeks to develop a new typology of revisionism based on the nature of the aims (territori...
Taking Syria’s armed conflict as a case study to illustrate processes of normative contestation in i...
The Russian military intervention in Georgia in August 2008 has raised significant questions about R...
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine are viewed by Western governments ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which commenced on 24 February 2022 represented just the latest, albeit...
Contribution to Opinio Juris International Law blog symposium, following Russia's annexation of Crim...
Over the last decade research has shown that the stability of international law has been threatened ...
Debate as to the relationship between law and power in Russia has long focused on the study of hard ...
Since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, studies on the Kremlin’s foreign policy have reached...
After the annexation of Crimea, Russia has not acknowledged either the violation of the internation...
This paper seeks to develop a new typology of revisionism based on the nature of the aims (territori...
A revisionist state would seek to challenge the existing balance of power in the system and threaten...
The Russian Federation Relation to International Law: Identity Analysis. Russia’s relation to intern...
Has Russian international law doctrine changed in relation to the post-Soviet states since the annex...
It is now commonplace in the West to describe Russia as a revisionist power, seeking to change the i...
This paper seeks to develop a new typology of revisionism based on the nature of the aims (territori...
Taking Syria’s armed conflict as a case study to illustrate processes of normative contestation in i...
The Russian military intervention in Georgia in August 2008 has raised significant questions about R...
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine are viewed by Western governments ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which commenced on 24 February 2022 represented just the latest, albeit...
Contribution to Opinio Juris International Law blog symposium, following Russia's annexation of Crim...
Over the last decade research has shown that the stability of international law has been threatened ...
Debate as to the relationship between law and power in Russia has long focused on the study of hard ...
Since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, studies on the Kremlin’s foreign policy have reached...
After the annexation of Crimea, Russia has not acknowledged either the violation of the internation...
This paper seeks to develop a new typology of revisionism based on the nature of the aims (territori...
A revisionist state would seek to challenge the existing balance of power in the system and threaten...
The Russian Federation Relation to International Law: Identity Analysis. Russia’s relation to intern...
Has Russian international law doctrine changed in relation to the post-Soviet states since the annex...
It is now commonplace in the West to describe Russia as a revisionist power, seeking to change the i...
This paper seeks to develop a new typology of revisionism based on the nature of the aims (territori...
Taking Syria’s armed conflict as a case study to illustrate processes of normative contestation in i...
The Russian military intervention in Georgia in August 2008 has raised significant questions about R...