govandpolУправление и политикаGovernance and Politics2782-70622782-7070MGIMO University10.24833/2782-7062-2025-4-1-57-68govandpol-93Research ArticleПОЛИТОЛОГИЯPOLITICAL SCIENCEКонструктивистский подход к санкциям как к нормативному вызову: санкции и конструирование идентичности РоссииSanctions and Russian Identity Construction: A Constructivist Study on Sanctions as a Normative ChallengeХуаньЛиHuanLi

Ли Хуань, аспирант

117997, Москва, Нахимовский пр., 32.

Li Huan – Post-graduate student

Nakhimovsky pr., 32, Moscow, 117997

muzisummer2088@mail.ruИнститут Китая и современной Азии РАНРоссияInstitute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation202524042025415768Copyright © Хуань Л., 20252025Хуань Л.Huan L.Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://www.gp-mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/93

В статье рассматривается ответ России на санкции через призму широкого процесса реконструкции идентичности после смены вектора внешней политики РФ в 2022 г.. Статья выстраивается следующим образом: в первом разделе автор дает обзор литературы, чтобы вписать исследование в современные академические дискуссии о санкциях, идентичности и внешней политике России. Во втором разделе представлена теоретическая основа исследования. Автор следует конструктивистскому подходу, согласно которому нормативное давление формирует и изменяет идентичность и самоидентификацию государства. В третьем разделе дискурс, официальная риторика и политические решения анализируются через призму идентичностного ответа на санкции. В четвертом и пятом разделах рассматриваются дипломатические и экономические связи России с Китаем и глобальным Югом. Автор приходит к выводу, что конструктивистский подход лучше объясняет смену вектора внешней политики России в русле трансформации международного порядка и утверждению принципов суверенитета, невмешательства и противостояния западной либеральной гегемонии.

The article examines Russia’s response to sanctions within a broader process of identity reconstruction after post 2022 Russia’s foreign policy realignments. The paper proceeds as follows. The first section reviews the literature situating this study within existing debates on sanctions, identity, and Russian foreign policy. The second section outlines the constructivist theoretical framework, emphasizing how normative pressures shape state identities. The third section examines how Russia’s leadership discourse, official rhetoric, and policy decisions reflect identity-driven responses to sanctions. The fourth and fifth sections examine Russia’s deepening diplomatic and economic engagements with China and the Global South. The article concludes that the constructivist perspective explains Russia’s diplomatic and economic realignment as a major shift for global governance and international order based on principles of sovereignty, non-interference, and resistance to Western liberal hegemony.

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