Symulakrum Zachodu? O rosyjskim podejściu do prawa międzynarodowego Lauri Mälksoo O osobliwościach rosyjskiego stosunku do prawa międzynarodowego tłum. M. Klimowicz, Centrum Polsko-Rosyjskiego Dialogu i Porozumienia, Warszawa 2022, s. 352

Abstract

It has long been known that the West and Russia have a different approach to international relations. However, whether this different approach also extends to the attitude towards international law was not so widely known. As Lauri Mälksoo proves in his book on the Russian approach to international law, although attempts have been made to westernise the law, Russia has developed its own understanding of international law over the centuries. The efforts of pro-Western modernisers proved ineffective. The Soviet period in particular played a huge role in the victory of Russian nativism. Paradoxically, it was then that the Russian theory of international law was essentially based not on the assumptions of Marxism-Leninism, but on an ethnocentric, nativist, Eurasian vision stemming from Russian history and tradition. Contemporary Russia is not far from the model that emerged then.