REINTERPRETATION OF RUSSIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Abstract

The collection of works by edithor Bogdana Koljević Griffith “REINTERPRETATION OF RUSSIA IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY” is the result of an inspiring conference held at the Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade on April 1 and 2, 2023, entitled “Reinterpretation of Russia in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Perspectives”.

Since the topic has not been exhausted, in the meantime a conference entitled “Seconds to Midnight: Capitalism, Connectivity and the Permanent Global Crisis” was organized at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania, Italy, on September 8, 2023

The collection in front of you consists of eleven works: Slobodan Vladušić, RUSSIA AND MEGALOPOLIS;

Pierre-Emmanuel Thoman, THE NEW WORLD SPATIAL AND GEOPOLITICAL ORDER INITIATED BY RUSSIA AFTER THE UKRAINE CONFLICT: WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS FOR EUROPE?;

Gabriel Galis, Gilles-Emmanuel Jacques, PARTNERSHIP OR CONFRONTATION BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA;

Alexis Trud, FRANCE AND RUSSIA: BETWEEN DEEP DISAGREEMENT AND COMMON INTEREST;

Alexander A. Lviv, RUSSIA AND THE WEST AS CONCEPTUAL OPPOSITION AND IDEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE;

Boris Bratina, Sibin Bratina, WHO NEEDS RETHINKING OF RUSSIA;

Eva Bujvid-Kurek, THE THIRD WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM IN RUSSIA;

Marius Vaccarello, THINKING OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – NEW DEVELOPMENT; NEW FRAME; NEW CHALLENGES;

Aleksandar Mus, MODERN MASS HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE ACADEMIC ROLE OF EXPERTS AS A POSSIBLE CAUSE OF THE CRISIS;

Douglas Mark Ponton, Diljara Daveltshina, INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM: INTERCULTURAL AND PERSPECTIVES OF BRITISH AND RUSSIAN COVID POETRY.

At the very end is the work of the edithor of the collection, prof. Dr. Bogdane Koljević Griffith under the title: “After neoliberalism: Russia and European values ​​in the XXI century”.

This article analyzes the political and social consequences of the “neoliberal turn”, which is recognized not only in the policy of American exceptionalism but also in the EU project. It is argued that Europe began to destroy its own value system with the beginning of modern European wars, i.e. wars against the Serbs, and then the emphasis is placed on the problem of the reinterpretation of Russia, as an issue of changing epochs and the “end of the American century” and as a potential for a new political-philosophical discourse of equality and true democracy.