Empires of Conquest and Civilization in Georgian Political and Intellectual Discourse since Late Nineteenth Century

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v2i2.185" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v2i2.185</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v2i2.185" target="_blank" >10.17356/ieejsp.v2i2.185</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Empires of Conquest and Civilization in Georgian Political and Intellectual Discourse since Late Nineteenth Century

Original language description

This article explores understandings of the concept of empire in Georgian political intellectual discourses in the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet Georgian contexts. Beginning with an elaboration of contemporary political and scholarly understanding of empire, the article then - drawing on the approaches of intellectual and transnational history - distils two meanings: empire of conquest and of civilisation. Both meanings are mainly attributed to the Russian State in its political incarnations as an empire, as the fulcrum of the Soviet Union and more recently as an entity in search of a Eurasian Union. The article argues that while for most of the nineteenth century, the concept of empire embodied by the Russia state was invested with both meanings, particularly by the end of the Soviet period, it came to be singularised to that of conquest. More generally, it suggests that while in contemporary international relations empire, as a political entity, remains discredited morally and legally, the Neo-Gramscian concept of hegemony in IR scholarship elucidates why and when some hegemonic states act as empires of conquest, and while some others can do both, thus mustering their &apos;structural power&apos; as well as &apos;soft power&apos;.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

INTERSECTIONS-EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS

ISSN

2416-089X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

104-123

UT code for WoS article

000407648900007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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