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Orthodoxy has gradually regained its political and cultural centrality in the post-Soviet space. If the example of Putin‘s Russia illustrates this tendency to confuse religion and politics for illiberal or nationalist purposes, Ukraine is not to be outdone. In addition to Petro Poroshenko‘s affirmation of a traditionalist and populist religious discourse, recent years have seen the emergence of Christian (ultra)nationalist currents. As similar as they may be to other ultranationalist movements that militate for the rebirth of a Ukraine emancipated from the Russian yoke, these fundamentalists are nevertheless distinguished by their revisionist Orthodoxy. Built around a national mythology of which the Tomos of 2019 would be the providential outcome, their discourse proposes with religion a new ontology of “Ukrainianness”. In this respect, the geographical space in which this Ukrainianness is supposed to be asserted is very important. This space is part of a specific imaginary that we propose to analyse.
Keywords: Ukraine, extrême droite, orthodoxie, guerre, géopolitique, imaginaires géographiques, Ukraine, far right, Orthodoxy, War, Geopolitics, Geographical Imaginaries
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The end of the cold war has put into question the geopolitical outlook the United States had developed within the bipolar system. In South Asia, India was deemed as irrelevant or unreliable for the Washington strategic interests; as a result, the United States had provided a consistent support to Pakistan. In the 1990s, India has been trying to assert itself as a regional power. So far the American reaction has been negative for three reasons: 1. Skepticism with respect to India's governability (Atul Kohli, 1991); 2. Willingness to promote Pakistan, as well as Turkey, as a moderate islamic State model ; 3. Persistence of policy makers' perceptions. By the summer of 1997, the Washington State Department may have started a reassessment. But if India is trying contention, the United States still expect compliance.
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