Session 11
Saturday (May 8):
10.00-11.30 AM EST
CHAIR
Kalina Zhekova
(UCL, UK)
PAPERS
Sergei Akopov
(Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Theorizing Sovereignty as “Organized Loneliness”:
Existential Approach to Sovereigntism of Russian “State-Civilization”
Burcu Degirmen-Dysart
(National Louis U, US)
National Identity and Foreign Policy:
A Study of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey and Russia
Lora Uhlig
(Independent Scholar, US)
Conceptualizing a Nation: A Constructivist-Informed Analysis of Identity,
Nationalism, and Continuity in Russian Foreign Policy
Pierre Jolicoeur
(Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston)
The Post-Soviet Enablers of Border Instability
*co-authored with Frédéric Labarre (Royal Military College)
DISCUSSANT
Paul J. D’Anieri
(UC Riverside, US)