https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5784?type=COREThis course examines Russia's posture in contemporary global society. It integrates scholarship from International Relations, International Political Sociology, International Law, Critical Geopolitics and Area Studies to study both the discourse and practice shaping Russia's global posturing and knowledge frameworks applied for its interpretation and explanation. The course combines classical and recent scholarly discussions with primary sources generated by state and non-state actors, ongoing policy analysis, and popular culture. The course starts with an overview of core foreign policy constructs in the Russian Federation and reads them through the lens of historically grounded approaches to studying such constructs in global scholarship and policy research. It reviews in particular Russia's projection of the role of international law and norms and its peculiar logic of managing and contesting global governance. To better understand this logic, the course sets it in the context of the domestic state-society relations and against the unsettled position of the Russian Federation in global and regional politics. This foundation will serve to analyse in more depth several substantive domains of Russia's ideological and practical posturing: in regional conflicts and interventions, UN diplomacy, and Russia-China relations as part of global (dis-) ordering efforts.