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Third Rome or Potemkin village: Analyzing the Extent of Russia’s Power in Serbia, 2012–2019

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2020

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Ernest A. Reid*
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School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Abstract

This past decade has seen the return of Russia into the public discourse. Moscow’s influence has been making a comeback across its old sphere of influence and in other parts of the world. In particular, there has been a lot of talk lately of Russian soft power spreading across the Balkan region, especially in Serbia. However, the concept of power can be rather ambiguous, and only a theoretically informed analysis based on empirical methods can lead to genuine conclusions. This article aims to apply an existing theoretical framework on power to the context of Russian influence in Serbia, in order to find out whether Moscow has any power over Belgrade and to gauge its extent.

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Southeastern Europepost-SovietBalkansforeign policymemory politics
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 49 , Issue 4: Special Issue on 1918 and the Ambiguities of “Old-New Europe” , July 2021 , pp. 728 - 737
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Association for the Study of Nationalities

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