Brainstorm Scheme Checks&Balances

Article idea 1 Name: Dan

Working title Ressurection of ideologies? Neo-Eurasianism and Russia’s foreign policy

Subject How the ideology of neo-Eurasianism influences Russia’s role in global politics

Main angle Presenting an interpretative framework for explaining the antagonizing relationship between Russia and Euro-Atlantic states.

Main arguments

The recent Russian aggression in Ukraine and the current Kremlin anti-Western discourse has its roots in a ressurected doctrine which seeks to redefine Russia’s role in the current international arena. Neo-Eurasianism presents Russia as a geopolitical player acting in a multipolar global order, destined to regain control over the former Soviet republics and to consolidate its entity on religious, ethnic, traditionalist, and anti-globalist grounds.

Writing style Argumentative

Sources

Alexandr Dugin, “The Forth Political Theory”, Arktos, 2009 Alexandr Dugin, “The Eurasian Mission”, Arktos, 2015 Marlene Laruelle, “Aleksandr Dugin: A Russian Version

of the European Radical Right?, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,

Marlene Laruelle, “Russian Eurasianism. An Ideology of Empire”, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

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Long article

Article idea 2 Name: Dan

Working title Why income inequality is not exclusively an economic issue anymore?

Subject Income inequality as a source of danger for modern society

Main angle Inter-national and intra-national economic inequality became from an economic issue a security one.

Main arguments

Income inequaliy has some consequential ramifications:1. Fuels transnational organized crime2. Creates immigrant fluxes3. Stimulates social tensions and diminishes trust in free-market

mechanisms

Writing style Argumentative

Sources To be found

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Long Article

Article idea 3 Name: Dan

Working title How the way we think about danger makes our world dangerous?

SubjectThe relationship between our “danger mindset” and factual threats.

Main arguments

What we classify as a threat is usually a social construct. Questioning the idea of threat can help us overcome existing threats and change our method of perceving external reality.

Writing style Argumentative.

Sources Yet to be found.

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Short Article.