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steppe tradition in international relations
Russians, Turks and European state-building, 4000 BCE-2018 CE
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Neumann and Wigen counter Eurocentrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, they discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the 'steppe tradition.' Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition's role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states like Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridizing the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition. They show how the steppe tradition's ideas of political leadership, legitimacy and concepts of succession politics can help us to understand the policies and behaviour of such leaders as Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey.
The steppe as the great unknown -- The emergence of the steppe tradition -- The steppe tradition settles down -- The steppe in the emergent Rus' polity -- Russia and Turkey between the steppe and Europe.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-297) and index.