The Understanding of Human Rights in the Neo-Eurasianist Doctrine

Authors

  • Joachim Diec Jagiellonian University in Kraków

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.18.2021.71.06

Keywords:

Eurasianism, human rights, Russia, Eurasia, Kazakhstan

Abstract

Neo-Eurasianism as a political doctrine is a descendant of the Eurasianist thought in the interwar period and L.N. Gumilev’s ethnological speculations during the Soviet era. Similarly to the oldest generation, Neo-Eurasianists, respond to the trauma of the lost empire in their thought: denying the leading position of the victorious competitor, they also deny the Western understanding of human rights. The polemic is conducted by a group of Russian visionaries, such as A. Panarin, A. Dugin, V. Korovin, as well as by much more pragmatic Kazakh theoreticians of law led by Z. Busurmanov. The Neo-Eurasianist narrative generally rejects the Lockean absolutization of inalienable individual’s rights and emphasizes the communitarian aspect instead. Russian Neo-Eurasianists blame the Western ideologists for treating human rights as a diplomatic weapon against foreign independent powers and try to present the liberal concept as a speculative idea. However, contrary to the Russian tradition, the idea of individual rights is not rejected in the Kazakh legal theory; it is presented in the light of a necessity to protect the right to cultivate one’s identity in the realities of a multiethnic state.

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Author Biography

Joachim Diec, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Ph.D., Professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Chair in Eurasian Area Studies. Main fields of research: Russian political doctrines, conservatism, nationalism, Russia and Eurasia in international relations, world civilizations, geopolitics. Major publications: Cywilizacje bez okien (Civilizations without windows), Kraków 2002; Konserwatywny nacjonalizm (Conservative nationalism), Kraków 2013; Geostrategiczny wybór Rosji u zarania trzeciego tysiąclecia. T. 1: Doktryna rosyjskiej polityki zagranicznej. Partnerzy najbliżsi i najdalsi (Russia’s Geostrategic Choice at the Dawn of the Third Millenium. Vol. 1: The Doctrine of Russia’s Foreign Policy. The Closest and the Furthest Partners), Kraków 2015, Deconstruction of Natural Order. The Legacy of the Russian Revolution, edited by Joachim Diec, Kraków 2017.

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Published

2021-04-05

How to Cite

Diec, Joachim. 2021. “The Understanding of Human Rights in the Neo-Eurasianist Doctrine”. Politeja 18 (2(71):115-37. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.18.2021.71.06.