IDENTITATE STRATEGICÃ ªI CONSERVATORISM RADICAL ÎN RUSIA LUI VLADIMIR PUTIN DARIE CRISTEA * LUCIAN-ªTEFAN DUMITRESCU ** Abstract. The article investigates security doctrines articulated in post- Cold War Russia and aims to see whether the principles of radical conservatism influenced the strategic identity used by Vladimir Putin. In our attempt to fulfill this objective, we have investigated both the values of radical conservatism and the characteristics of eurasianism. We have obtained two typologies which we then compared in order to see the differences but also the common points. The purpose of our study is to highlight the modern and post-modern content of mystical elements employed by eurasianism and to pin down the narrative directions engenderd by radical conservatism once it has entered the geopolitical realm. In addition to the fact that eurasianism proves to be just a pastiche of the radical conservatism specific to the interwar period, neo-eurasianism proposes a rather unconvincing social alternative, something related to early modernity, to the ultramodernism disseminated by the U.S., whilst by employing the model that Samuel Huntington made famous neo-eurasianism depicts civilizations as monolithic units, overlooking one civilization’s inherent conflicts. Keywords: strategic identity, social constructivism, eurasianims, radical conservatism. Identitate strategicã Potrivit Irinei Isakova 1 , identitatea strategicã angajatã de preºedintele Vladimir Putin începând cu anul 2002 a fost mai curând de sorginte neo-eurasianistã. Di- ferenþa faþã de modelul eurasianist reiese mai ales din absenþa idiosincraziilor în privinþa partenerilor strategici ai Rusiei. În vreme ce eurasianiºtii erau sceptici Rev. ªt. Pol. Rel. Int., IX, 4, pp. 16–26, Bucureºti, 2012. ———————— * Lector universitar dr. la Facultatea de Sociologie, Universitatea Bucureºti. E-mail: darie.c.cristea@ gmail.com. ** CS. dr. la Institutul de Sociologie, Academia Românã. E-mail: dulust@gmail.com. 1 Irina Isakova, Russian Governance in the Twenty-First Century. Geo-strategy, Geopolitics and Governance, London&New York, Frank Cass, 2005, p. 17.