Participants

R Taras⁵; Vera Ageeva³; Yulia Kurnyshova¹; Paul Robinson²; David Lane⁴;  ¹ University of Copenhagen, Denmark;  ² University of Ottawa, Canada;  ³ SciencesPo, France;  ⁴ Cambridge University, UK;  ⁵ Tulane University, Political S, United States

Discussion

This roundtable introduces 'new thinking' about the claim that Russia is exceptional in its international politics. Can the former Soviet Union and the current Russian Federation be included in an expanded list of colonizers and neo-colonial states previously reserved for western European countries? Has the legal system nominally paid attention to human rights and a rules-based order while pursuing a two-track agenda? Perhaps most exceptionally of all, how did the USSR end its existence in a world where states rarely disappear?