Russia and Great Britain: The National Factor in the Competition of the Great Powers
摘要
Abstract
The ethnonational policy models of Russia and Great Britain are revealed, as well as the techniques for actualizing and exploiting the national factor in Russia–Britain rivalry in the 19th–21st centuries. The national question is examined as one of the instruments of great power confrontation since language, religion, the “call of the blood,” the construction of national myths about a “golden age,” and the identification of an enemy that deprived a nation of its former greatness give rise to a split in the elites of small nations, oriented toward opposing geopolitical centers in the struggle for power and resources within national communities.