Imagining the “World Majority”: The Discursive Construction of the Collective Non-West and the Transformation of Narrative Templates in Russian Official Discourse
This article analyzes how the idea of a collective non-West was constructed in the Russian official discourse from 2012 to 2024 and how this process was linked to a rethinking of the world order and of Russia’s macropolitical identity. Theoretically, the study draws on constructivism, critical geopolitics, and James We...