Russia's new authoritarianism : Putin and the politics of order / David G. Lewis

Includes bibliographical references and index

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- ONE / Authoritarianism, Ideology and Order -- Understanding Russian Authoritarianism -- Order, Smuta and the Russian State -- Russia as Weimar -- Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Order -- TWO / Carl Schmitt and Russian Conservatism -- Carl Schmitt in Moscow -- Normalising Schmitt -- THREE / Sovereignty and the Exception -- The Centrality of Sovereignty -- Sovereignty in International Affairs -- Domestic Sovereignty: Deciding on the Exception -- The Dual State -- FOUR / Democracy and the People

Putinism and Democracy -- The Decline of Parliamentarianism -- Constructing a Majority -- FIVE / Defining the Enemy -- Russia and Its Enemies -- The End of Consensus -- SIX / Dualism, Exceptionality and the Rule of Law -- Law in Russia -- Conceptualising Dualism -- Politicised Justice -- Mechanisms of Exception -- The Exception Becomes the Norm -- SEVEN / The Crimean Exception -- Crimea: The Sovereign Decision -- Legality as Imperialism -- Order and Orientation -- EIGHT / Großraum Thinking in Russian Foreign Policy -- A World of Great Spaces -- Russia's Spatial Crisis -- The New Schmittians

NINE / Apocalypse Delayed: Katechontic Thinking in Late Putinist Russia -- Russian Messianism -- Russia as Contemporary Katechon -- Katechontic Thinking and the Syrian Intervention -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index

David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria - he critically examines Russia's new authoritarian political ideology