Why the “Othering” of Russia Is Neither Historical Analysis Nor Helpful
This article was first published on Visegrad Insight’s website on April 3, 2015, under the title “On Byzantine-Asiatic Totalitarianism: Why the...
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller is a researcher at the Division for Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Römisch-Germanische Zentralmuseum in Mainz; among other subjects, he has done research and taught on the discourses of “Orientalism” and “Occidentalism” in “West” and “East.”